Teaching Us His Name

God uses the wilderness experiences in our lives to teach us his name. If we, like Moses, wish to see God’s glory, it will often be in the wilderness that we see it. The beauty of the desert experience is in beholding God. It’s as if he woos us out into the wilderness so we can behold him. In the desert, he seeks to know us and to be known by us. As we behold him, we come to know him. We learn his name and his ways and become increasingly whole. To borrow a phrase from Father Greg Boyle, “We marinate in the intimacy of God.”

Throughout our wilderness experiences, we will become…