When it’s time to step out and transition from one thing to another, sometimes these questions scream in the quiet…

“What is happening?”

“How did we get here?”

“Where are we?”

“Where are we going?”

“What is the cause?”

I’ve been thinking about the Israelites…

They were captives.

They were slaves.

They were mistreated, undervalued, and they were calling out to God to rescue them.

God heard their cries, raised up Moses, and handled it.

He set them free.

Then, in a supernatural turnaround, with the wet sand still on their sandals as they had just walked between two massive walls of water that God held back by His very hand…they find themselves now as wanderers.

…wandering in the wilderness following this greatness, this tangible move of God on their behalf.

Not sure where they are going, or what tomorrow may look like…simply the fire by night and the cloud by day.

I’ve been thinking particularly about the wilderness, and what that actually was… what it felt like to them.

I bet it was more like a season of unknown…

…like, ‘I know God’s saying “A Promised Land,’ but I don’t know where we are going, and this doesn’t look promising…”

…a season of “I cannot see past this moment.”

… “I don’t know how this will turn out.”

… “I don’t know if I’ll do this well, or if I’ll fail, either one is a realistic possibility.”

Until God reminds me of the manna.

There was manna everyday provided by a perfect Him.

Manna that sustained, equipped, satisfied.

Manna represented and contained everything they needed for survival even physically.

So whether you stepped across your Red Sea moment yesterday, or 5 years ago… whether your wilderness started last Sunday or in March…

I’m here to tell you that God’s providing your manna, that God is guiding you not only daily, but step for step.

Keep moving forward in some direction.

Discourage that discouragement.

God’s going before you, He’s right with you, and He is your rearguard…

And you’ll too, make it into that Promised Land.

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*Exodus, the whole book.