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Sunday... Have you come up with a way to live your life, something that shows you the way?


Sunday... Have you come up with a way to live your life, something that shows you the way through the difficulties of life?

I am reading in my mornings in the book of Numbers. It is one of the first five book in the Bible and it was written by Moses. It tells of a group of people and their travels though their life. Right now I am reading about 12 different tribes who are headed to a place none of them have been to and they have no maps, they have no roads but they are striving to follow God and his plan but they also don't have a Bible. Their leader Moses is writing his part in the Bible, the first five books but God is still leading them if they follow him.

Now each of these 12 tribes had a leader and each of those leaders followed one leader who was in direct contact with God. There would have been no way they could have made it to where God wanted them to go if they didn't follow this plan and that is why it took so long for them to make it because they at different times set out to follow their own plan something like what we as a nation and as individuals are doing in this time we are living in.

In the first few years God set up a way to lead them. Numbers 9:17-18 (NLT) says, "Whenever the cloud lifted from over the sacred tent, the people would break camp and follow it. And whenever the cloud settled, the people of Israel would set up camp. In this way, they traveled and camped wherever he told them to go."

Verse 23 says, "So they camped or traveled at the Lord's command, and they did whatever the Lord told them through Moses." What that means to us in the day we are living is that we follow whatever the Lord says though his Word, the Bible. He has a plan for all of us. He wants to lead us and protect if we seek after him and call out to him.

Psalm 34:6 (MSG) says, "When I was desperate, I called out, and God got me out of a tight spot. God's angel sets up a circle of protection around us while we pray. Open your mouth and taste, open your eyes and see-how good God is. Blessed are you who run to him." And then verse 15, "God keeps an eye on his friends, his ears pick up every moan and groan. God won't put up with rebels; he'll cull them from the pack. Is anyone crying for help? God is listening, ready to rescue you."

He has a plan. Let him lead you, let him guide you, he knows the way, he has a plan. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


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