1 Samuel 15:1-35; Isaiah 54:1-17; Romans 1:18-32
And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there? Numbers 20:4
As they travelled through the wilderness the children of Israel were constantly complaining. Yet all the hardships they faced for 40 years were their own fault. In fact the wilderness journey could have been avoided if they had not rejected God’s plan. They could have entered the Promised Land within a matter of weeks instead of wandering in the wilderness for forty years. Are you wandering in the wilderness, my friend, because you are too stubborn to listen
carefully to God’s way? —David Croudace
Thy way, not mine, O Lord, However dark it be;
Lead me by Thine own hand, choose out Thy path for me. —Horatius Bonar