What Are You Being Asked to Lay on the Altar in Your Wilderness?
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Wilderness seasons test more than our endurance—they expose our attachments. When everything else is stripped away, we’re often brought to a sacred crossroads: the altar of surrender.
In Scripture, altars weren’t built in comfort. They were raised in dry places, often when the future felt uncertain. Abraham carried the wood. Isaac asked about the lamb. And God asked for trust. The cost was real—even before the sacrifice was made.
But here’s the question: are altars just symbolic? Or are they meant to reshape us in those wilderness places?
Many believers speak of monuments to God’s deliverance—times when He parted the waters or broke through in victory. But altars are different. They don’t celebrate what God did… they mark what we laid down. And laying something down often hurts.
What if the wilderness you’re walking through isn’t a detour… but the path that leads straight to the altar?
Is God asking you to release something precious—your timeline, your plans, your comfort, your control?
And if so… what does that surrender look like?
“God isn’t trying to take something from you. He may be trying to give something through you—but first, something has to die.”
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