Numbers 21:4 They traveled from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, to go around Edom.
But the people grew impatient on the way; (The remaining division between the two ancestry lines of Jacob and Esau prevented God's people from interacting in positive and productive ways together with their ancestral brothers.
Still today, we often set up subjective and foolish parameters for ourselves and others, making it harder on both.
Then, as difficulties arise from those decisions, as we experience the challenges that arise before us, we grow discouraged and annoyed and impulsive.
Then, instead of trusting the Lord that He will guide us through even this inconvenient direction that has been set before us,
instead of trusting that He can use even this part of our human nature to grow us and mature us, we begin to doubt and take our eyes off His sovereign leadership.
The truth for us today is that the Lord guides and leads us even through places where we could have avoided had we earlier chosen differently. The truth is that the Lord uses all of our choices and all of our ways to bring us into conformity with His perfect will for us.
As we walk with Him, He is not blocked by our inadequacies or the immature choices we often make, instead, guiding us through those places to lead us to the land of promise He has for us.)
