ISOLATION - A PLACE WHERE GOD SPEAKS

And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. 1 Samuel 23:14
The Hebrew word for “wilderness” is midbaar and is derived from dahbaar meaning ‘to speak.’ The wilderness is the place where God wishes to speak into our lives. It is a place where we are not in control. It is a place where we cannot anticipate the attacks that come out of nowhere at the least expected moment. It is often a place without assignment, with no appointments to keep; nothing to do except to live and survive. It is a place where we wrestle with who we are and the purpose for our life. As a result it is a place where we experience the terror of truly meeting ourselves for the first time!  But fear not, for your true self is something miraculous.  David expressed it this way. 
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.  Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.  My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth.  Psalms 139:14-15

David understood that God yearns to transform us and prepare us for the way everlasting.     
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! Psalms 139:23-24

God is welcoming all of us to the wilderness of transformation!