Maybe you are sitting there today and you are thinking, “ I don’t know what to do about the future. I don’t know where to go. I don’t know whether I will have a job. I don’t know whether my business will still be operational after the lockdown is lifted. I really don’t know what to do.”

Well, I want to tell you that the Lord took a full nation, the Israelites, through a perilous desert for 40 years.

They didn’t know where they were going either so how did they make it?

This is how they made it.

If you go to the Book of Numbers at the beginning of the Bible, the Book of Numbers Chapter 9 and I am reading from verse 22:

“Whether it was two days, a month, or a year that the cloud remained above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would remain encamped and not journey; but when it was taken up, they would journey.

At the command of the Lord they remained encamped, and at the command of the Lord they journeyed; they kept the charge of the Lord, at the command of the Lord by the hand of Moses.”

When the cloud was resting above the Tabernacle, their portable church, they never moved.

When the cloud lifted then they followed the cloud.

Sometimes the cloud would remain for two days, sometimes two months.

They would not move until the cloud moved.

And at night, they had a pillar of fire which would direct them.

As a Christian, we don’t take chances.

We follow after the Good Shepherd.