“The wilderness is where we are forced to leave behind the familiar, the comfortable, the past successes, the accomplishments, and the old bag of tricks that always worked before. The wilderness is where God takes us when He wants to get Egypt out of our hearts. He wants to separate us from all that we crave, so that all that we crave is Him. … It’s not that He doesn’t want us to ever be comfortable. It’s just that He doesn’t want us to depend on the comfortable. He wants us to depend on Him. … When God aims us in a new direction, we have to let go of what we’ve known, be willing to embrace the unfamiliar, and trust that He will sustain us on the journey.”
— Stormie Omartian, Just Enough Light for the Step I’m On
