The Desert Call.

“Life really begins at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.” — Carl Jung

The Lenten desert is almost over as we draw nearer to the end with Palm Sunday this week. Are you hungry? Are you thirsty? Tired?

The reflection of Lent to Jesus’ experience at the start of His journey is a great parallel to where we can find ourselves right now. His time in the desert for forty days wasn’t marked with the end, but a start of something big. In Matthew, two things happen right after the temptations in the desert – Jesus departed from the desert and was ministered to by the angels and Jesus called His first disciples, including Peter.

Incredible things happened just after that long fast. That traverse was in preparation for His mission ahead.

Now that our travels through the desert are nearly complete, what awaits you on the other side? Is there something you’re being prepared for? Is there something you’re being asked to do?

A growing prayer with Righteous is to build and encourage new things. This season of life, faith, and culture speaks of answering the call in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke – “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins as well; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins,” – Mark 2:22.

The whole Righteous mission of “helping the productively faithful to dream, do, and be righteous,” is to help you to get up and go. Build something new. Make new wineskins. Be creative. Start a family. Be industrious.

Use this Lent and Easter as a call to build.

Keep going!

— Adam

Adam Jarosz is the founder of Righteous Co., a brand built on faith, adventure, and purpose. With over twenty years in youth ministry and a heart for men’s formation, Adam leads retreats, writes from the trenches of real-life discipleship, and equips others to live boldly and faithfully. He’s a husband, father of four, and believer in the power of grit, grace, and good gear. Follow along for insights that challenge, encourage, and call you higher with his newsletter, The Climb