Going to the Desert

I am going to the desert

to sit with God alone.
I will not take my IPOD,
my laptop, or my phone.

I am going to the desert
with no favorite food or drink.
I'm going there to listen
to the silence and to think.

I am going to the desert
because I hear the voice
crying in my wilderness:
"It's time to make the choice...

To straighten out your crooked heart,
Fill dark valleys in your soul,
Tear down pride's mountains and prepare
a highway for the LORD."

So as the Spirit drives me--
to the desert I will go.
The things I substitute for God
will not be going, though.

I'm asking to be emptied
of all I love instead,
then to come back full of Life--
WORD Incarnate Fed.

Pray for me, my friends, and I
will surely pray for you.
I'm going to the desert as
my LORD called me to do.