When you are in the wilderness'

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"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring 
her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably 
unto her." Hosea 2:14

When you are in the wilderness, you have . . .
no friend,
no creature help,
no worldly comfort—
these have all abandoned you. 

God has led you into the wilderness to bereave you 
of these earthly ties, of these 'creature refuges and 
vain hopes', that He may Himself speak to your soul. 

If, then, you are separated from the world by being 
brought into the wilderness—if you are passing through 
trials and afflictions—if you are exercised with a variety 
of temptations—and are brought into that spot where 
the creature yields neither help nor hope—then you are 
made to see and feel that nothing but God's voice 
speaking with power to your soul can give you any 
solid grounds of rest or peace. 

But is not this profitable? It may be painful—it is painful—
but it is profitable, because by it we learn to look to the 
Lord and the Lord alone—and this must ever be a blessed 
lesson to learn for every child of God.