Wilderness Won't Be Wasted

Verse 1

The wilderness has a way of shrinking your world

Down to the size of the hurt you're carrying

The horizon disappears behind the dust

And every step feels harder than the last one did

The questions get louder than the answers

The nights get longer than the days

And before you know it, you've forgotten

How wide God's promises really are

Pre-Chorus

Your prayers get shorter

Your hope gets quieter

And the road ahead looks like it never ends

But what feels like forever

Is only a season

Not the destination you've been promised in the end

Chorus

So trust your wilderness won't be wasted

Every tear, every trial, every road you've taken

God is working in the silence

Even when you cannot see

What feels like the end of the story

Is just a chapter in between

The wilderness may shape you

But it will never define you

Trust your wilderness won't be wasted

Verse 2

The wilderness does something to our vision

Clouding what was once so clear

Making the place we're standing feel like the whole story

When it's only one page written here

Because valleys have a way of teaching

What mountaintops never could

And sometimes the deepest roots are growing

When life doesn't feel good

Pre-Chorus

The waiting isn't empty

The struggle isn't pointless

And the pain isn't proof that you've been left behind

The Author's still writing

The story's still moving

And redemption takes its time

Chorus

So trust your wilderness won't be wasted

Every scar, every setback, every heart that's breaking

God is working in the silence

Even when you cannot see

What feels like the end of the story

Is just a chapter in between

The wilderness may shape you

But it will never define you

Trust your wilderness won't be wasted

Bridge

One day you'll look back from the other side

And see how grace was guiding every mile

How the desert wasn't punishment at all

But preparation for the call

How the nights that nearly broke you

Were the nights that built your faith

And the road you would have never chosen

Became the road that showed the way

Final Chorus

So trust your wilderness won't be wasted

The God who led you in is the God who'll lead you out again

The chapter may be painful

But the story isn't through

There is purpose in the waiting

There is beauty breaking through

Keep your eyes upon the promise

Not the place you're standing in

Because the wilderness is only where the journey bends

And someday you'll see

What He was doing all along

The wilderness was never wasted

It was making you strong.