It took one day to get them out of Egypt. It took forty years to get the Egypt out of them. So they were led into the wilderness. The wilderness is the place no one wants to go. Maybe for you it’s a wilderness of depression. Maybe it’s a wilderness of loneliness. Maybe it’s a wilderness of failure. Maybe it’s a wilderness of doubt. The wilderness is not just a place of disappointment. It’s also the furnace of transformation. It’s worth noting, too, that nobody in Israel knew they’d be spending forty