God's Children Are Never Forsaken

Today's Verse is Numbers 9:16
So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

The whole time that Israel was in the wilderness--which has come to mean a time of trial--God's presence could be seen by this pillar, the cloud or the fire. As God as promised by Paul: "And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also, for tribulation worketh patience and patience, experience and experience, hope". So, I can testify to this truth, as I learned in the poem The footsteps in the sand so I have found true, in my darkest days since I have trusted in Christ's gift the presence of God could always be found, even when my back was to him. So if you are in the "valley of the shadow of death", do not fret, for even if you do not want to admit it even to yourself, if you are his, God is there in some obvious way.

To God Be the Glory
Scott