This morning I was reading in Numbers 9 and was struck by the way that the Israelites traveled through the desert. They had a simple plan really, follow God. Sounds easy enough. They would set up the Tabernacle and the cloud (the divine presence of God) would cover it. As long as the cloud stayed over the Tabernacle the people would stay camped around it. When the cloud moved from the Tabernacle the people packed up and moved with it. They simply followed after the presence of God, and when God was no longer there, they followed Him to the next place.

How powerful would our lives be if we could follow God with that kind of simplicity and intensity? Its a simple idea that really should change the way we live. Discover the parts of your life where God is moving and camp there. Seek out the parts of your life where He is not moving and set out to follow Him.

Whatever you do, don’t camp in the wrong spot because you will be wasting your life sitting alone in some desert.

1. alece Says:
   March 18th, 2008 at 2:42 pm

   recently i looked closer at the story of abraham in genesis 12. i actually backed up a bit to the very end of genesis 11. it describes abraham’s father, terah, setting out for the land of canaan… (sound familiar??) and then it says: “and they went as far as Haran, and settled there….and Terah died in Haran.” and then we move into chapter 12 with the “famous” calling of abraham…

   terah forfeited God’s plan for his life by settling at the halfway marker.

   i don’t want God to have to use someone else because i decided to set up camp where i shouldn’t have…