[Discoveries] 02-23-07 Dancing and destinations

[Inspiration in Your Inbox]

/*Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out. 
Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month or 
a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it 
lifted, they would set out. -- Numbers 9:21-22*/

"Man shall not live by bread alone," Jesus answered the devil in the 
wilderness, "but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God." All 
our human inclination drives us to live by bread alone -- to make plans 
for our own survival and success, to engineer our lives, to fix our 
problems, to determine our own destiny.

Along comes God and plants us in the wilderness -- not just for a day, 
but for days on end, tedious and monotonous days of going nowhere. About 
the time we finally accept our wilderness assignment, about the time we 
settle into the routine and get comfortable, the cloud lifts and we move 
on, not really knowing where we will be going.

Why the wilderness? Why the chaos of a life we cannot control? Why the 
right turn, left turn, move forward, move back -- a dance without a 
destination? Why?

Generations later, believers would ask each other: What was it like to 
see the glory of the Lord? What was it like to eat the bread from 
heaven? What was it like to know the leading of the Lord so clearly? 
What was it like to have God Himself inside the camp?

I don't have all the answers here, but it seems to me that sometimes God 
disconnects us from our dreams and our schemes so He can have us -- just 
us -- to Himself. Is it really a dance without a destination? Or if we 
are in the arms of the One who loves us, is it possible that we have 
already arrived?

Be encouraged!
Dwight


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