Most people think there is safety in numbers but if Scriptural precedent teaches us anything it is that, when the spirit of God moves upon a person, it moves that person away from the masses and into a wilderness. This is where true spiritual growth occurs.

The spirit of God causes one to step out and away from the crowded religious world into a world that, while it may appear at first to be risky and dangerous, is in fact the safest, most blessed place to be. It is of far greater spiritual benefit to suffer with the children of God “outside the camp” than to enjoy the transient pleasures of mass acceptance within.