Pastor Steve indicated in one sermon that we will have our trouble (wilderness). Yes, I believe we all will. Remember Jesus taught in John 13:16 “I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.” Later he reminded his disciples of this teaching in John 15:20 to prepare them for persecution.
Prior to leaving this earth, Jesus gave some final instruction in John 16. That instruction included verse 33 “"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world."
You ask for a modern day look at what that could be like. It is as complete in scope as any other age. If you think globally for a moment, there are Christians undergoing persecutions in several parts of the world this very day. In my mind, that is the severest form of trouble. Perhaps Paul’s description of the last days that he gave to Timothy will show us practical possibilities. “There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power” (2 Timothy 3:1-5). There you have the root source of trouble in any wilderness. -David Corts
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