Thursday Week 3

We are continuing to look at why God leads us through the desert. Yesterday, we saw that one reason was that God wants to teach us to trust him. The reason for this, hence a second reason, is that God wants to do things for us that we cannot do for ourselves. Look at these verses again.

"He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known, to teach you that man does not live by bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you." Deuteronomy 8:3-5

your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years...

Last week, I went with two other guys on an 80 mile hike. I can tell you after one week, my clothes looked like crap. And my feet were ok, but Ross and Ben's (I'll have to show you pictures) they looked like Will Smith's face after he ate shellfish in the movie Hitch. They were balloons. That was one week! This was 40 years!

The truth is God wants to take you to a place only he can take you. Will you let him lead you today?