Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”
No, it would not have been better for you to remain enslaved to the Egyptians.
No, it would not have been better for you to stay with your abusive spouse.
No, it would not have been better for you to keep working for your bully of a boss.
No, it would not have been better for you to continue supporting your controlling pastor.
No, it would not have been better for you to go on in that zero-accountability system.
No, it would not have been better for you to endure all the dehumanization of whatever environment you have been delivered from.
It only feels that way now. Because being out in the wilderness can feel vulnerable. Because with your enemy hot on your trail—even if only in your mind—you can wonder if leaving was worth their wrath and all the unknowns now before you..
Yes. It’s worth it.
The wilderness is indeed wild—wide-open, unpredictable, and utterly free. And you, too, were meant to be more wild than domesticated, created more for the open field than the corral.
See Exodus 14:1-18.