It wasn’t until God’s people utilized the lesson from the desert that they made Jericho’s walls fall to the ground and began the storming of the Promised Land. It wasn’t until the apostles entered the upper room that the Holy Spirit fell upon them and began the storming of the gates of hell by the Church. And it could be that your period of desolation will ultimately strengthen you spiritually.
God could be using desolation in your spiritual life to prepare you for something great on earth, but we know for sure that his ultimate plan is to use it as a means to bring us to heaven—something beyond our wildest imaginations, “What eye has not seen, and ear has not heard, and what has not entered the human heart, what God has prepared for those who love him” (1 Cor 2:9).
—from St. Anthony Messenger‘s “Your Prayer Life: Looking at the Bigger Picture“
by Martin J.P. Gianotti
