New Zealand Adventures

"Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, abiding there, the people of Israel remained in camp and did not set out, but when it lifted they set out. At the command of the Lord they set out. They kept the charge of the Lord, at the command of the Lord by Moses" (Numbers 9:15-23, quoted 22-23). I read that just now and thought it was amazing. How marvelous to actually follow God like that and what a wonderful lesson to learn: to stay where we are and find our purpose in it. I so often think that being a student is a waste of time. Sure the objection can be made that it's "preparing me for the future" but it still seems to be years of idle work that the time could be instead used to care for children in Africa who have no one to love them or some other so-deemed heroic and shining deed to make a difference. But ya know, that's not how God calls us to see. God calls us to stay where He says until further instructions. He often doesn't give us long-term plans, just what we need to get by in that moment. But it's enough, it always is. I so often find people discontent and restless with their present situation. We tell ourselves it's not the greatest thing we could be doing to glorify God, when in actuality who are we to say what can most glorify God? Emerson once said that the meaning of success is to know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. One life. What if we treated our day to day like that, realizing that by helping one life we have great meaning and purpose. We need to stay more at home in God. When He calls we go, but while He seems silent, distant, peaceful, or however you feel Him right now, we stay where we are and learn to give even our restlessness, our fear, our blindness to see the amazing ways God is using us in our current situation to Him in prayer. If we don't trust, we have nothing and if we sit around and think our current situation is a mistake, we waste the time God has given us to further His kingdom and bring Him glory.