January 25

"Y ou shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not."

Deuteronomy 8:2

All the wilderness experiences of God’s redeemed ones are designed to bring them to an end of themselves and to cast them more implicitly upon Himself. If He allows us to hunger it is that we may learn to appreciate the Bread from Heaven. If He permits us to thirst it is that we may more fully enjoy the clear crystal streams of grace flowing from the smitten Rock. What memories all His ways will stir when safely home at last!

All the way by which He led us,

All the grievings that He bore,

All the patient love that taught us,

We’ll remember ever more;

And His rest will seem the sweeter,

As we think of weary ways,

And His light will shine the clearer,

As we muse o’er cloudy days.