The wilderness, though not a city, is a place in which many a child of God has found himself. Consider many of the saints of the Old Testament. Abraham spent many long nights in the wilderness. So did his son. The wilderness is where Hagar went when she was trying to flee from the Covenant Household of God. It was where Joseph was abandoned by his brothers and then sold into slavery. The nation of Israel at the time of Moses first met their God in the wilderness. The most famous of all wilderness experiences was that of Israel when after they refused to trust God, the Lord sent them back into the wilderness for forty years. David spent many years in the wilderness. Elijah fled to the wilderness.
And yet it just wasn't in the Old Testament where one finds the wilderness. New Testament children of God spent time there too.
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Greg Thurston
The Wilderness Cities of the Bible Bethel Presbyterian Church
