Often times in life we find ourselves in the same shoes as the Israelites, it seems like we are spending an awful lot of time out in the wilderness, sitting, waiting, watching for where God wants us to go. But more often than not we get fed up with the waiting, and we limit God to where he has brought us, and are impatient to see where he is taking us. What we see in our forward prospective looks very tempting, and we like the looks of where that road can take us. But in becoming content with the things we see with our perspective, we are limiting the place that God sees with his plan. We can only see the car in front of us, God can see the traffic that's ahead.
Kind of like what Solomon was talking about in Proverbs 3 "5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths."
What a shame it is when we try to comprehend the overall picture with our infant minds. We try to make our own conclusions and develop our own schemes on how to get where we want to go in life. But in doing so we are only limiting God to the plan that he has in his infinite understanding.
In hindsight it seems better to sit, wait and watch in the wilderness than to be wondering around in your own plans for 40 years.
Here is a good song to sum it all up.
-Alex
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God knows all about us more than we ourselves do. Therefore, We shouldn't be reluctant to let Him take control. It's a struggle that we all need to conquer to live out the life He laid out for us
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