The final stop of our final day of our final physical settings field study was one of endings and beginnings. We climbed atop Mt. Nebo and read the end of Deuteronomy looking in the directions of Gilead, Dan, Ephraim and Menaseh, Judah, and the Negev. Across the Northern end of the dead sea we were even able to pick out the towers on the Mount of Olives - something Dr. Wright says he has only seen about 2 other times out of the tens of times he has been here.
Dr. Wright spoke of Moses leading the people from a prosperous place through the uninhabited uncultivated wilderness. Coming up to this place he would have looked on to more wilderness - more rough uncultivated land. Yet Moses trusted in God - the one who had led and provided for them through the last 40 years, the one who had blessed them with His law and chosen them as His people.
I have seen more of God's faithfulness this semester. Now as it draws to a close I look across the river as the Israelites did into the unknown, trusting in the God who has proven faithful. I have more information to back my understanding of the BIble. I have more pictures in my mind to illustrate the Biblical narrative. I have a better idea of the sights, smells, and tastes of the text. Most importantly i have just a bit better understanding of who God is and I have begun to follow him a bit more closely. As He has been, He forever will be.
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