Hey guys, welcome back to the Dad Tired podcast, specifically this new segment on our show called

Caleb's Corner, where my actual pastor, Caleb Allen, is teaching us every week. Right now,

we're in the middle of a series that he's taking us through called Finding Jesus in the Wilderness

of Your Soul. This is part two of that series. If you miss part one, make sure to go back

to last week's episode. Again, these are called Caleb's Corner, and it's every Wednesday he's going to teach us. So make sure you're

subscribed so you don't miss anything, and we're very fortunate to have him teaching us every week.

Also, this is on Spotify and on YouTube, so if you prefer to watch in video form, you can go

on those platforms and watch it on video. Otherwise, I'll step

out of the way and we will dive into part two with Pastor Caleb on finding Jesus in the

wilderness of your soul. All right, we're back at wilderness themes. I'm trying to wrestle through life when life gets muddy and hard.

Remember, we talked about the fact that what the patriarchs, early church fathers, many

commentators, writers have kind of drawn out is that there's this common experience in the

life of a believer in their process of maturation, in the process of discipleship, where we come to these places on our journey

where we feel tired, we feel confused, we feel dry, we feel desperate, and we don't really know how to

navigate, how to fix it, and God really seems to be sifting us and rolling to the surface, purging us.

John Christosum said this.

The wilderness is a training ground for the soul, where one learns endurance and virtue

away from the distractions of the city.

It's in the wilderness that the soul, through deprivation and struggle, is cleansed and prepared

for communion with God. In other words, he's saying the wilderness, this season of feeling

confused and tired and empty, dry, this season is the training ground of the spirit, where he's

developing you, where he's drawing to the surface,

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