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GRACE, Exploring Its Riches

possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless,
not as I will, but as You will.”

If Jesus needed a desert place alone to develop the
grace of God upon Him for living, for public ministry,
and to fulfil his destiny, no less should all His disciples.

2. A Place of Divine Dealings and Training: The
desert of life is also a place of divine dealings and
training. You may know God generally in the midst of
people, in a crowd in church, in the midst of a
multitude, but intimacy with God and His peculiar
dealings with you are comprehended in the desert
where you are alone with Him.

David might have been raised up by his father, Jesse, in
the general rudiments of divine worship according to
the Jewish order, but he must have come to know God
for himself in his desert, while tending his father’s
flock alone in the wilderness. Many of the beautiful
psalms David composed were likely done in those
moments of solitude in the desert where, while alone
with the sheep, he came to comprehend intimacy with
God. Studying many of those psalms of David one
will be convinced of a man who met with God and
knew the peculiar dealings and ways of God
intimately. In those psalms we notice his depths of
divine intimacy and inspiration. Take Psalm 16, for
instance:

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