"The sermon I heard last week also referred to waiting. It talked about the cloud that led the Israelites by day and fire by night. Numbers 9:15-23. When the cloud moved, they packed up camp and moved. When God moves, we must be willing to pack up camp and move, but what is so often missed is that sometimes the cloud hovered for months. Didn't move. It was in those days that the people must have begun to wonder if God was still in the cloud. If he was still leading them. If he was really there. God has given us something much greater than a cloud. We have been given his spirit. His tabernacle now lives WITHIN us. And it will lead. Sometimes we just need to wait at camp for a while, but still be ready to MOVE when He does."
I feel like I am on the brink of the Lord moving me somewhere. The Lord is changing so much in my life right now. I was reading my old journals last night. He gave me a verse in 2006 that I felt Him speak over my life last night, "Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing (Isaiah 43)." He gave that verse to me in college when nothing in my life seemed predictable. Alot is going on now (three years later), but I am encouraged because I feel like the Lord is doing something. The winter is over and gone. He is instructing and teaching me on the way I should go, and most importantly, He is watching over it all. Him doing a new thing is not always easy and comfortable, but I am encouraged He is changing not only my life, but my heart as well. "Be at rest, oh my soul, for the Lord has been good to you (Psalm 116:7)."
