Through Many Dangers

When God led His rescued people from Egypt, He brought them out into a desert land… “In the waste howling wilderness; He led him about. He instructed him. He kept him as the apple of His eye” (Deuteronomy 32:10). 

“Waste howling” implies two things: total emptiness and great danger. No food, water, highways, trees, shelter, or provisions on the way. Deadly wind and sandstorms, wild animals, and the “poisonous crawlers” that walk in darkness, made the desert a place no one dared go.  

Yet God provided Manna for each day, water from the Rock that followed them and their cattle, a cloud by day from the heat, and a fire by night for light. For forty years, the lesson was driven home to their hearts that those who walk with the Lord “lack no good thing.”

“Those who dwell in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord: He (and He alone) is my Refuge and my Fortress: my God, in Him will I trust” (Psalm 91:1,2). 

The promise of the Cross is that the God, who died to save us, lives to keep by His power all who place their faith in Him. Jesus is our daily Manna. His Spirit is the living water from the Rock that was smitten. He is our Refuge, Light, and Guide through these corrupt and dangerous last days.

John Newton, after being saved from a life of sin, wrote: “Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come. ‘Tis grace has brought me safely thus far, and grace will lead me Home. The Lord has promised good to me. His Word my hope secures. He will my Shield and Portion be, as long as life endures.” Amen.

(Devotional by Lisa Cataford)