“At the LORD’s command Moses recorded the stages in their journey.” Numbers 33:1-2
This reminded me of how very important, not only history is to all the world, but how very important it is to children for their parents to journal their own journey, especially when the LORD has given them something that HE NEEDS them to do.
And what could the LORD need any of us to do for Him?! I’m thinking more about what the LORD calls a man to do for his own family, and for God’s greater Family. Moses was a man who had to leave his family to obey the calling of the LORD, which reminds me of what soldiers do in the military with the hope of protecting their own family’s future, as well as the whole nation of families. God bless them.
While it’s a very important position to hold as a pastor or a senator, let’s say, it’s far more important the position a husband and father have because any nation’s or society’s ‘good future’ depends on the condition of its families. This is how the devil takes over a nation – to at least diminish, if not to ultimately destroy God’s Family, as if he could.
It was critical for God’s people to record their journey of faith in the LORD for their children and grandchildren, great grandchildren and so on. Why? Because the Land God had said would be theirs FOREVER, would not be easy to keep throughout coming generations, with ongoing war for the land of Israel. God has called Jerusalem the “City God Loves,” and is why Jerusalem is referred to as “the Center of the Earth” because of what is still to come as “recorded” in the Bible for God’s children to know and to NEVER forget.
Most women (or men) don’t journal the meaningful things that happen in their family – to pass it down to their children and grandchildren to know and remember. Why is it important to journal our journey in reaching our goal, or dream, or calling from the LORD? It’s so very important to give our children and grandchildren hope and encouragement to persevere in their goal, dream or calling from the Lord, especially when it has to do with God’s ‘eternal’ Family.
I consider the Bible as the Journal of the Journey of God’s Family from the beginning of time – up to the coming of God’s Son as a baby, which was Jesus’ calling from God His Father, to leave Home and complete His Father’s Plan for redeeming an evil and fallen world. The record of Christ’s mission on earth, and the promise of God’s Son returning to Jerusalem to reign as King of kings and Lord of lords, and all He’ll do on the earth with His faithful saints – is more than “a journal of history; for it’s God’s Journal of “Who was, Who is, and Who is to come” and all that WILL BE FULFILLED!
Our journals of our journeys can only be about what has ‘already’ happened to date, and what we can only HOPE to accomplish going forward. But God’s journal, a.k.a the Holy Bible, tells us what has happened, is happening and all that is yet to come – that will happen – because God is Creator, Savior, Redeemer, Judge and Eternal Father. with an eternity planned for those who wholeheartedly love His Son, and hold fast to His Word on their journeys of faith, hope and love for the LORD.
Just like Moses with the Hebrews coming out of Egypt to reach the land God said was theirs forever, we also will one day enter the Promised Land our LORD promised those who remain faithful to Him all the way through their journey to see Him face to face. This is why the Holy Spirit led and inspired the Apostles to record what they were going through as men called by the LORD for what God needed them to do, so that God’s children would not give up on their journeys of faith in Christ our Savior, Lord and King.
No matter what your journey is about, it’s well worth recording! Wouldn’t you say? Others will benefit from reading your journal, and you will never know how much your journal means to God until we are on the other side Heaven awaiting all those who will come in behind us.
The Christmas Story, is not just a nice story to include with the Santa Claus story; it’s our Savior’s TRUE journey of faith, hope and love – for the world to read about and to NEVER forget.
Merry Christmas!