Pondering Today's Word

From today's scriptures
I am concerned about you
and about the way you are being treated in Egypt;
so I have decided to lead you up out of the misery of Egypt
into the land of the Canaanites...
a land flowing with milk and honey.
-Exodus 3:17-17

The Lord is concerned about every one of us -and all of us together- and his desire is to lead us out of misery and into that land flowing with milk and honey.

Eventually, the Israelites came to the promised land but the journey there was not an easy one. Still, the Lord accompanied them every step along their way, whether the people were faithful or unfaithful to his love and word.

Whatever might be my misery today, the Lord is leading me to a better place. The journey there might have its own difficulties but the Lord walks every step of it with me - when I'm confident in his presence as well as when I fear or think he has abandoned me.

The Lord walks with me in many guises... who walks with me in the Lord's name? whom does the Lord ask me to accompany in his name? One way of defining the Church is this: the people who walk together in the Lord's name and offer mutual support that together they may find and enter the land flowing with milk and honey. Who has the Lord put at my side to support me? Whom does the Lord ask me to walk with along the way?