Inside Out Living

In our first seven years of marriage, my wife Kristi and I had seven different addresses. We would often make jokes about being part nomadic or having the “year-and-a-half itch.” However, through those years and all the moves, one thing was consistent – it was always our decision when we moved.

As you read today, that was not necessarily the case for the Israelites. How would you like it if every day you woke up and had to check if the cloud had moved to know if you were leaving or staying? It didn’t matter how much you liked your current spot, if the cloud was moving, it was time to go. I would imagine that many of us would begin to complain and grumble if we had to live like that. And yet in a way we do live this way. If you are at all concerned with being in God’s will and He says “go,” then you will go.

Are you willing to follow God’s direction? If God were to say “go,” would you go? How will you go? Will you complain and grumble or will you go joyfully knowing that God is leading you?