To often I find myself lost in the wilderness, or I find the wilderness expanding inside me, and I get stuck in that place. God chooses John the Baptist to come and call out to those of us who struggle with wilderness, those of us who get lost in our own pain, those of us who turn to moralistic rules in order to place ourselves somewhere on the map.
John does not call out to the people to Find the Way, nor does he tell them to get out of the Wilderness. Why not? If I was talking to people who were actually wandering in the wilderness those would be my first two pieces of advice. What if salvation is not removal from the wilderness? Maybe what God wants to say is that Salvation is coming to you in the midst of your Wilderness Experience. Then the call is not to fix ourselves, or find our way out, but only to be ready for the King who is on his way to the very place you are stuck now.
This voice calls into the Wilderness still, "prepare the way" because Salvation is coming the heart of the desolate place where we so often find ourselves.
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