Joy In The Desert
Tuesday, November 21, 2023
A Guide For The Pilgrim
On a pilgrimage tour to Israel, my friends accommodations varied. They were in a luxury hotel with waters flowing in from the Dead Sea. Then they stayed in a kibbutz, an Israeli farm community. It was in the middle of the desert. It was so bare and yet, it was one of the most special experiences on that pilgrimage. Your pilgrimage on earth is the same way. Often what you think is the most meaningful: gaining money, riches, comfort, big houses, reputation or status turns out to be nothing in the end. But those things you didn't expect - the times of prayer, of love with your family, giving, helping, those times that maybe weren't comfortable, but were God's will, growing closer to Him, worshiping Him, persevering in righteousness, being faithful in Him are the things at the end of the journey that have the most glory. Because it's not the luxury hotels that are going to mean anything, but the places you spend being faithful, doing His will, loving, rejoicing, blessing, close in His arms, your kibbutz in the desert - that's what will mean everything in the world.

Today's Mission
Today forget being comfortable. Seek to do what is right, and meaningful in God and forever.

Matthew 6:20
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
A Life of God-Worship
“Don’t hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or—worse!—stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it’s safe from moth and rust and burglars. It’s obvious, isn’t it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.

Have a blessed day and week.
May Yeshua Hamashiach bless you,
Love, Lizzy