Remem­ber how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to hum­ble you and to test you to know what is in your heart that you would keep His com­mands. — Deuteron­omy 8:2Deuteron­omy 8:2
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
2 And thou shalt remem­ber all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilder­ness, to hum­ble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his com­mand­ments, or no.  

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Has God per­formed a heart test on you lately? There are times in our lives when God leads us into the desert to let us find out what is in our heart. These times can be very dif­fi­cult and hum­bling. They can test our med­dle like no other time. Desert times often mean we are liv­ing with­out those things we are nor­mally accus­tomed to: water, food, lim­ited supplies-and with few com­forts. In mod­ern terms, it may mean a dif­fer­ent envi­ron­ment. God is per­form­ing a very impor­tant work dur­ing these times. He wants to know if you are obe­di­ent to Him in these times; or obe­di­ent only when times are good?

He hum­bled you, caus­ing you to hunger and then feed­ing you with manna, which nei­ther you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell dur­ing these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man dis­ci­plines his son, so the Lord your God dis­ci­plines you (Deuteron­omy 8:3–5Deuteron­omy 8:3–5
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
3 And he hum­bled thee, and suf­fered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, nei­ther did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that pro­ceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live. ⁴ Thy rai­ment waxed not old upon thee, nei­ther did thy foot swell, these forty years. ⁵ Thou shalt also con­sider in thine heart, that, as a man chas­teneth his son, so the LORD thy God chas­teneth thee.  

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These desert times may mean expe­ri­enc­ing new ways of pro­vi­sion from the Lord. Like manna from Heaven, it may mean see­ing mir­a­cles we’ve never seen before. Like cloth­ing that never wears out, it may mean see­ing your nor­mal capa­bil­i­ties expanded. Like walk­ing hun­dreds of miles with­out pain, desert expe­ri­ences pro­vide new lessons and new expe­ri­ences that only these times can teach us.

What desert expe­ri­ence has He brought into your life lately? Per­haps it is a lean time in busi­ness. Per­haps it is a new envi­ron­ment. What­ever it is, when God decides to bring new dis­ci­plines into our lives by bring­ing us into the desert, do not fear the heat that is sure to come. He is walk­ing beside you to test you and find out what is really in your heart. Ask for His grace to pass the test. He wants to bring all of His chil­dren into the Promised Land.

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