New Insight into Psalm 23...series

"It was alone with God on the back side of the desert that Moses learned a lot of things about God, as well as learning how to do His will...…
When He calls us to come aside and spend some time alone with Him then He can make us realize just how precious and wonderful He is. There, alone with God on "the backside of the desert, the
enemy of your soul cannot gild the sands of that spot!
There, alone with God, the din and confusion of the world do not fall upon your ear in that distant place.
There, alone with God, the crash in the money and commercial world is not heard.
There, alone with God, the sigh of ambition is not heard.
There, alone with God, the world's laurels do not tempt.
There, alone with God, the thirst for gold is not felt.
There, alone with God, the eye is never dimmed with lust.
There, alone with God, the heart is never swollen with pride.
There, alone with God, human applause does not elate.
There, alone with God, human censure does not depress.
There, alone with God, nothing is seen or heard except the stillness and light of God's presence.
Would to God that all of us would know more about "the backside of the desert" of an aloneness with God!
Alone with God is the place of searching for the guidance of God, and the place of committal to it.
The experience of the "backside of the desert" of an aloneness with God may mean for you what Isiah meant. When speaking of Christ's ministry to us he said, "To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD that he might be glorified.(Isaiah 61:3). "
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