Keep a Record

At the Lord’s command, Moses wrote down the starting points for the stages of their journey. —Numbers 33:2

Throughout the forty years of the wilderness wandering of the children of Israel, Moses kept a record of the Lord’s dealings with His people. Why? Because God told him to.

I think God told Moses to keep this journal so the Israelites would remember what they had learned about God at each stage of the journey; so their children might learn the same lessons; and so we, too, could learn from their experiences.

In fact, the New Testament makes two specific references to Moses’ journal: “For whatever was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that we may have hope through endurance” (Rom. 15:4). “These things . . . were written for our instruction” (1 Cor. 10:11).

Over the years, I’ve kept a record of many signif- icant markers in my walk with God. While most of them center around specific circumstances in my life, invariably they’re birthed out of God’s Word, as the Spirit uses whatever I may be reading at that time to shed light on my path.