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He Knows Your Walking!

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“He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.” Deuteronomy 2:7

He knows your walking.  Every step you take has His attention.  The wilderness comes with many perils.  The wilderness can be a place of lack, yet God reminds His people, “thou hast lacked nothing,” Deut. 2:7.

What wilderness are you in right now?  Our God knows.  Does your desert place bring tears?  Is companionship missing in your world?  Nothing is hidden from the eyes of our Father.  The steps you take in this weary land are marked with His supreme knowledge.

When Moses rehearsed their traveling through this land, he reminded them of the good times and the bad – and yet, through it all, God saw their walking.  As His beloved, He knew where they were and what they were dealing with.

The same can be said for each of us.  God sees the paths we take.  He sees the trudging through the murky times.  He sees the hard roads traveled.  He recognizes that every trip is not a time of prancing through the peaceful meadows, but there are hills to climb, some slippery, some steep.  He recognizes the sweat and the effort it takes to keep going.  He sees every choice, every footfall.

My friends,  some days when we walk it seems we are walking through a river of tears, walking in waters too deep with currents that are too strong.  But the encouragement for our souls is it is not lost on our God and no step we take is wasted.  Every step in the right direction, regardless of how hard it may be, will lead to our place of promise.

Some days it may seem that we are walking in circles – not sure what we are doing or where we are going.  But while we are walking, we can walk with hope.  We can walk in faith (yes, even if you can’t feel it, we can still step out in faith by just moving forward).  We can walk in the confidence in the victory that lay ahead for us.

In the unsure moments, the disappointing moments, and the hurting moments, He sees it all.

Knowing that God sees me walking through this great wilderness brings a special measure of comfort to my soul.  The wilderness may take its toll on you, and it may even make us question some things along the way – but, even then, and even there, our steps are known.  Our hearts can be filled with this great truth even in the wilderness.

My friends, we hold so much in us while we are walking through this wilderness.  We experience so much in this dry place.  Each of us has encountered a wilderness area we may be walking through, have walked through, or are about to walk through.  It is in this season of life, that the struggle from day to day can be overwhelming.  For some, you have walked so long and so far, that you may feel like you are lost in a desert.  But, no matter what stage of your walking, God still sees you.  His eyes have not left you and His heart is for you.

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Remember What the LORD Thy God Did!

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“If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I; how can I dispossess them?  Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;” Deuteronomy 7:17-18

Is there something overwhelming before you?  Are there new boundaries that you are looking to breach?  Has fear caused you to miss out on the best that God has for you?

The children of Israel could have answered yes to all these questions.  Forty years prior, they had a chance to enter the Promised Land.  They had a chance to possess everything the Lord had in store for them. But they missed out.

A bad report from some unbelieving spies rendered the people’s resolve for the fight useless (Numbers 13:32).  What they saw as an overwhelming obstacle and what they believed in their heart about themselves (Numbers 13:33) not only affected them, but their negativity spread throughout the entire camp (Numbers 14:1-3).

Because of this, they were made to turn away from what could have been, and they were forced to return to the wilderness of what was.

Approaching the verses above, they now are being prepared, forty years later, to take another shot at their promise.  Moses, in reiterating all the commands of God before they enter, is also teaching them how to overcome any doubts and fears they may have about possessing their promise.

Their fathers couldn’t enter because of unbelief (Hebrews 4:1-3), but Moses wanted this generation to make it.  He wanted them to gain everything God has for them.

They couldn’t do that if they didn’t remember.  Remember who was on their side (Psalm 118:6).  Remember who it was that was fighting for them (Deuteronomy 3:22).

Moses instructs them, when they cross over and when what’s before them seems to be too much for them – when they cross over and that whisper of fear begins to speak, he tells them to remember.  Remember what God has already done and draw strength from those victories.

We may not be trying to dispossess nations to obtain a Promised Land, but in trying to progress or move forward into our own promises, we can let fear stop us.  When we look across the borders of what can be, sometimes it seems daunting.  Overwhelming.  Down-right impossible.

In those times, we would do well to follow Moses’ advice: remember.  Remember what God has already done.

You have your own testimonies of God’s faithfulness and workings in your own life.  You have areas where His help stood out because of the circumstance you were facing.  You have those moments when He spoke to your heart during desperate times, showed you His love, or ushered a victory in for you.

Remember those moving’s of God’s might in your life.  Draw strength from His faithfulness and go and possess your promise.

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