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Miracles Day 10: Into The Desert

By: Laura Ngai

Having been born, raised, and rented out the house that I grew up in from my parents someone might say that I had some serious roots. The only time I had moved was to switch bedrooms in that same beloved house. It wasn't until I met my husband that my adventures of moving began. The more I move, the more I come to understand that the more stuff you accumulate you either have to purge before you move or get a bigger moving truck to haul it all in. I've gotten to be seasoned at moving by now. Making up for lost time, maybe? What I do know for sure is that the old adage, "Home is where the heart is." has its merits. More appropriately; Home is where you choose to make it.

The move I had the hardest with was when we were called to move to a new time zone in the desert. We had sent my husband ahead to start his new job and make sure it was going to be a good fit for us before we completely packed up and moved from where we were at. So believe me when I tell you that I had a pity party. Sitting on my bed I couldn't help but feel a little like the children of Israel at being moved into the desert. My prayer at that point was that it wouldn't last for 40 years!

After fidgeting with my smart phone I was lead to look up scripture on testing. Ever try to look up scripture only to have a totally dyslexic moment and get the number transposed when you go to look it up? I have. But here is what the Lord said to me.

Deuteronomy 2:7 "All along the way I, the LORD your God, have blessed every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing."

Ok Lord, I hear you. You have blessed me so far. You are watching out for me. You are with me. You have made sure my needs are provided for.

Then I went back to the transposed and a wrong number for what I originally was supposed to look up.

Deuteronomy 8:2 "Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not."

Ever feel like you have been smacked upside the head with scripture? You are not alone. Two things occur to me with this passage: 1) I was being sent to the desert, away from friends and family, away from my comfort zone so that God could grow me to see if I would keep his commandments. 2) It was pointed out to me by a friend that I shared this story with, a couple years post move to the desert, that I was lead to scripture that happened after the forty years of the Israelites being in the desert. She revealed with a word of knowledge to me that I wasn't intended to stay there for long.

As I sat there on the bed, in total humbleness, thanking God for the new job opportunity and asking Him to direct me in what I needed to do from there I was lead to another scripture.

Deuteronomy 4:29-31 "But if you seek the LORD your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul. In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the LORD your God and obey him (for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them."

Beloved, if you are in a place right now where you are feeling called to seek God, know that you will find Him. Return to Him and obey what he is requesting of you. In my own journey to the desert I was able to find peace, new friends, adventures that I never would have come to know or even dream about if I had not been physically moved from the place where I had been.

Remaining humble beside you while keeping His commandments.