As we have spoken of the 'Wilderness' times of our lives, we've come to understand that the wilderness is not a place of God's rejection, punishment, or abandonment; but rather a place of God's preparation. The wilderness is greatly used in preparing a man or woman of God for DESTINY; a place to separate US FROM THE WORLD and separate us TO GOD, this is part of the process known as 'sanctification'. Though the wilderness is a foreboding place, even to some today, we've begun to realize the wilderness is not to be a plave for God to CORRECT US; it is rather a place for God to PERFECT us. Isa 40:3 The voice of one crying out in the wilderness: prepare the way of the LORD. (You can actually say, 'prepare your life for the Lord'.)