God knows what is happening to you. Satan and the world do not possess the ability to harm one hair of your head. The wicked can overthrow neither the atonement made on Calvary nor the resurrection of Christ from the dead.

God cannot lie. He will not leave you. Put your trust in God and He will bring you through to glory. Never, never, never surrender. Rest in the faithfulness of God.

They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. (Psalms 125:1)

One of the principal reasons for wandering in the wilderness is preparation for war. When a Christian first is redeemed he may not be wise or strong enough to stand up successfully during vigorous spiritual combat. Think about the meaning of the following passage:

And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt: But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. (Exodus 13:17,18)

This was a long unpleasant detour to the south!

We learn valuable and eternal lessons during our "wilderness wandering" if we respond readily to the Holy Spirit and are good students. We are taught how to follow God. We become strong in the Lord provided we exercise faith, courage, perseverance, and single-minded resoluteness in our determination to follow Christ all the way to the fullness of the realization of the promises of God (Hebrews 3:14).

The knowledge and strength we gain in the wilderness will make it possible for us to stand when God begins to bring us against the enemies who are in possession of our inheritance, our rest, our land of promise.

If God were to bring us immediately into spiritual victory, responsibility, and power it is likely we would be tricked into deception by the cunning devices of Satan. The wilderness is not a good land, and Satan does not press us too much as long as we are wandering about in a hot desert wasteland, so to speak, far from the rich treasures of the Lord.

But the Israelites were not saved from Egypt in order that they might take up residence in a desert wilderness. They were redeemed from the hand of Pharaoh so they could make their home in a fruitful, well-watered land, the land of Canaan. Egypt was a better place to live than the desert wilderness except that Pharaoh had made their life unbearable by the vicious, unreasonable slavery he had forced on them.

We Christians were not saved from the world in order to live as a weak and persecuted segment of the world's population while sinners inherit the earth. A Christian may remain weak and persecuted for a season while he is learning the lessons God desires to teach him. But eventually (in most instances after the Lord returns) he will inherit the riches of this earth and all else God possesses.

Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted. (Isaiah 60:11,12)

God calls us from our bondages and then promises He is taking us to a glorious and fruitful land of peace and joy. The land of promise is our inheritance. It is the rest of God, the abiding of God in His people and they in Him. It is the land of fulfilled dreams, the impossible come true, the end of the rainbow. (from The Land of Promise)