It takes eleven days to go
from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road (Deuteronomy 1:2).
Just a parenthetical note,
that’s all. Apparently common knowledge – It takes eleven days to go from
Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road. It was from Kadesh Barnea,
the southern entrance to Canaan, the spies were dispatched to survey the
Promised Land. It was at Kadesh Barnea the people balked at going in
and taking what was rightfully theirs.
It takes stamina, determination
and careful planning to squeeze an eleven-day journey into forty years.
The people who followed Moses
out of Egypt were not prepared to follow him into Canaan – not once the cold
reality of battle and hardship pierced the fog of their naïve
expectations. They were slaves, not soldiers, and they needed to grow up if
they were ever to claim their inheritance.
There may be times in our lives
when it seems things are taking longer than they should, when we take inventory
of our lives and insist we should have come further and accomplished more.
Rather than becoming frustrated, those are the times we need to remember that
God alone knows how far we’ve really traveled and the battles we’ve fought to
get from where we were to where we are now.
The straight-line distance from
where we started to where we end up may not tell the whole story of how far
we’ve come.
TODAY’S MEDITATION
Acknowledge God’s presence
in your journey, and thank him for bringing you this far.
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