Thank you for joining us for our 7 days a week, 7 minutes of wisdom podcast. This is Day 272 of our trek, and yesterday I asked you, “How Heavy is Your Backpack?” I must follow up today with, “Have you taken steps to lighten your load?” This concept will be important during the next three or four days as we explore Wandering in the Wilderness by Faith. If you miss any of our Wisdom-Trek episodes, please go to Wisdom-Trek.com to listen to them and read the daily journal.
We are recording our podcast from our studio at The Big House in Marietta, Ohio. It has been a joy to have our grandson Kip with us this week. He has done so well working on Granny’s Surface Pro tablet during the day in our office with Granny and Gramps on either side of him. He worked on Thomas the Train and Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood games for long stretches at a time. Both of these programs have great moral teaching principles built into them.
We were on-site with one of our clients in Marietta on Friday and took Kip along with us there also. It has taken many years to build a lifestyle business where we can work as we do. We still work hard, which usually includes many hours each week, but being location independent has become a reality. It allows us to wander from various locations and still be able to complete our work.
As we consider the concept of wandering, we want to ponder what it means to be…
When I hear the phrase wandering in the wilderness, it brings to mind how the nation of Israel wandered in the wilderness for 40 years on their way to the Promised Land. This was due to their lack of faith that God would help them to occupy the Promised Land. They could have possessed the land in less than a year from leaving Egypt, but because of their disbelief, the trip stretched out 40 times longer.
We see that the older generation of the Israelites whom God had freed from slavery in Egypt die in the wilderness. The story of their journey through the wilderness shows that they never overcame their slave mentality, the mindset they brought with them from Egypt. They were set free, but in their minds, they were still as shackled as if they had never left. Their thinking—and thus their attitudes and conduct—constantly reverted to the way it...
