“There is a voice in the wilderness crying, a call from the ways untrod, prepare in the desert a highway, a highway for our God. The valleys shall be exalted, the lofty hills brought low, make straight all the crooked places, where the Lord our God may go.”

My brothers and sisters in Christ, we are living in trying times, we are parched like the desert and longing for spring rains, but in these times, we must learn to listen to the voice crying in the wilderness, we must seek to draw closer to God who alone is able to turn our parched places into pools of water, he is the only one who is able to send us the early and latter rains and to make all of our crooked places straight. There is a voice in the wilderness crying, urging us to prepare to meet our God. Do not ignore the message because of the messenger.