The following is the Artist's Statement.
The credit for the direction of my thoughts and words is not mine. I account it to the merciful pricking of my spirit as well as the instruction available to all of the redeemed through God's great men of sound Biblical doctrine, unshakable faith, and enduring conviction, past and present.
We know that the redeemed of God through Christ are the beloved, but our hope, desire, and urge to live for His Glory while living in Satan's economy (which is temporary) is oftentimes exhausting. This war, now heightened and intensified during these end of days, will continue up to the moment we see Christ Jesus face-to-Face. Until then, some of us may wander towards (or in) "a" wilderness that is connected to our trials. Some of us will encounter despondency, loss, or worse. Yet we know and believe that God and Christ are faithful to rescue the redeemed out of those wilderness episodes.
I am so grateful He has purposed them to be instruction that opens our eyes and ears and leads us to repentance and/or greater understanding. It is from there that we can gain purposeful insight and maturity in Him. Surely all of the redeemed agree; for we know that we cannot live without God, nor do we wish to. We need and desire our Saviour to work in our hearts, life-experiences, and circumstances hour-by-hour and day-by-day. This sentiment is deeply indwelt truth that resides within the very core of the spirits of "we," the redeemed of Christ.
Finally, when any of us go through "wanderings," and when we "bump" into the profoundly lost or into fellow brethren who are also in the distress of wandering, we want the evidence of God's drawing us back to Him through instruction, repentance, forgiveness and reconciliation to be the hope and evidence of God's grace and mercy to rescue "whosoever" to repentance that lead to salvation, or to the redeemed's restoration to fellowship with the Father and the Son.
May the Lord our God use all "wanderings" as a powerful testimony of how great is the draw of God and how profound Christ's rescue, for the lost and for the saved.
