What are the words that God offers to us in the hard place? What are the ways in which God speaking to our hearts in the wilderness? There are many, but here is one—When you find yourself hungry and thirsty for the life you used to know, trust that what God gives you is better. The Israelites’ wilderness experience concerns actual hunger and thirst. “Why did you bring us out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?” they cry (Exod. 17:3). They accuse: “For you have brought us out into the wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger” (Exod. 16:3). They are actually hungry and actually thirsty, but their physical hunger and thirst symbolizes a larger reality—they have left everything that they know to journey into an uncertain future.