"He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee." Deut. 2:7.
What a journey! What a traveling Companion! Every stage of the wilderness journey is marked out by the infinite love and unerring wisdom of God. He is leading His people by a right way, home to Himself; and there is not a single circumstance in their lot, or a single ingredient in their cup, which is not carefully ordered by Himself, with direct reference to their present profit, and their everlasting felicity. Let it only be our care to walk with Him, leaving ourselves and all our belongings absolutely in His hands; and then when our desert wanderings are over, when the last stage of the wilderness has been trodden, He will take us home to be with Himself forever.