Desert

Desert – a place where your heart is revealed; a testing place where you learn to be dependent on God’s word. It can be barren and infertile, but it can also be a place of preparation for entry into the promised land.
Proverbs 30:16 The afterlife, the barren womb earth that still demands water, and fire – they never say, “Enough.”
Brown – Earthly or earthen. Compassionate and humble.
2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.