EXODUS (Part 5): LED BY THE SPIRIT
The Israelites were not in the wilderness for very long before they realized that God wanted to be everything to them. They needed to learn that in Him we humans live, and move, and have our very being. They needed to learn that they could trust in Him, and lean on Him for every need that life presented to them. God intended to lead them to a land that was flowing with milk and honey, but first He knew that they required some refining. To accomplish the work that He intended, God promised that He would dwell among His people. His presence would be with them all through the time that they spent wandering in the wilderness. He told them, "I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God. And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, that brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, that I may dwell among them: I am the LORD their God." (Exodus 29:45, 46). From the time that Israel first left Egypt, God's presence appeared to them in the form of