This Sunday Miles gave an inspiring message on the first chapters of Numbers in his series titled Road Trip. He broke it down such that God gave assignments and had roles for 3 categories of people: the leaders, the levites and the soldiers. God has a plan for each of us to fulfill in the Kingdom of God. It is up to us to embrace it or not. Miles pointed to the fact that when you draw a diagram of how God instructed the 2 million Israelites to camp around the Tabernacle (portable temple of the time), there is a clear picture of a cross.

This is crazy because crucifixion / cross had not and would not even be invented for another few thousand years. God had the Israelites walking around the desert for 40 years in a shape that points to Jesus Christ, dying on the cross for mankind’s sins and they probably were never aware of it. That is so much like us, we walk around looking at only what is infront of us, from our perspective instead of trying to see it from God’s perspective, the bigger picture. We waste time wandering around (40 years in Israel’s case) when we could be in God’s will faster and sooner (11 days in Israel’s case to get to the where God had intended them to be).

On a side note, God was working mightily that morning. Joe’s brother (inlaw) who decided to tag along with Joe for the first time to the Rock answered Mile’s altar call!