View the post for March 2 for an explanation of my theme for Lent. In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. After miles of following the Missouri River through North Dakota I remember the surprise of our first view of the badlands of the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. There in front of me I could see each distinct layer of rock that made up the butte. As the winds and water of the wilderness expose each layer they tell us something of the climate and environment that made the layer the color that it is. It is the many layers that give this place its special beauty.
The wilderness is a place where our faith is refined; our need for God is exposed. Our times in the wilderness reveal layers of who we are. It is our faith, refined by the wilderness, that even though these times are hard they are worth more than gold. Prayer Lord God of the Wilderness Refine us and make the layers or our lives beautiful as we journey through the wilderness. Amen
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