Tending Sheep

After Moses killed an Egyptian, he fled to Midian. Moses spent 40 years living in the wilderness and tending sheep for his father-in-law.

Only after spending 40 years in the wilderness, and tending sheep in the scorching desert, was Moses deemed ready by God to lead the Israelites out of Egypt and toward the Promised Land.

Does God seem to have you in the desert these days? Perhaps your time in the wilderness has gone on longer than you ever could imagine. Perhaps you feel as if it will never end.

Know that God, as part of His sovereign will and plan, intentionally allows us to go through periods in the wilderness. Sometimes very long periods. God frequently allows this in preparation for a new responsibility, just as He did with Moses.

If you seem to be in the desert right now, tending sheep in the wilderness, then please take heart and know that God is allowing it as part of His divine plan. He may have a huge new undertaking for you right around the corner, and He's preparing you for it in the wilderness, just as He did with Moses.