Keeping God in View

 We may never know the full economic impact COVID-19 has had on America — businesses that were lost, financial ruin, loss of job security and for some, homelessness. I can’t help but wonder if what America is experiencing might feel similar to what the nation of Israel experienced in the Exodus. When the Lord brought the nation of Israel out of Egypt, they too felt a financial sting. Jobs were lost, homes abandoned and savings vanished. I feel confident we will not wonder in an economic dessert for 40 years. However, in uncertain times we too can have God in our sight. “In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted. So the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel during all their travels” (Exodus 40:36:38 NIV).