A Taste of the Wilderness

Most of the time we think life is okay

We, as mortals, can usually find our way

Then comes the great life-changing needs

That knocks us to our ungrateful knees

We flounder under the unending stress

When faced with a taste of the wilderness.

Just like God’s children of old

Who built the forbidden calf of gold

They could not wait just one more day

For Mose’s to show them the Father’s way

Turning their backs on the land of promise

When faced with a taste of the wilderness.

People have not changed in all these years

Hardships are still here along with the tears

But we must never give up or ever turn back

Into the world of bondage to sin and of lack

Always seeking the path that God will bless

When faced with our own taste of the wilderness.