For some time now (like the last 3-4 months, especially during the move) the following verse has been in my mind: The LORD had said to Abram, "Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you." (Gen 12:1). God does actually say some more things after that, blessings etc., but just that verse has been on my mind.
When I look back it seems to be a lot like what I've just gone through. I've left my country, Switzerland, and even my people in Indiana, my father's and mother's and any other relative's household to move to San Diego.. not quite sure why.. God just kept saying "I'll show you when you get there, just go now, you'll see!"
Just in the last few days now I’ve been searching for God more intensely and I sort of stumbled across the passage in Joshua where God leads the Israelites into the promised land after wandering around in the desert for 40 years – funny, I just finished reading Rick Warren’s book “ the purpose driven life", a 40 day study.
Anyway, so they cross the Jordan, then God has all the men circumcised (whatever that could mean in my life) -> Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." So the place has been called Gilgal to this day. <- (the whole story's in Joshua 3-5)
Then they celebrate Passover and the very next day they eat food made of the produce of the land and …there is no more manna. 40 years of eating manna every day, God’s miraculous provision in the desert, then they come to the land God promised them (Canaan) and switch to the food that's there.
So what does all this have to do with me?? I don’t know! But I do know that God is doing something very soon.. in fact He’s been doing a lot of great things lately.. but that’s just a foretaste, right? Can it be that God is leading me out of the desert i feel i've been wandering through and into one "flowing with milk and honey" ??
Sunday, December 25, 2005
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