Ever feel as though God has forgotten you?

It may feel like you're all alone trying to find your way forward, or in some ways like

you're walking in circles.

Well today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall continues his biographical study

on Moses. And in this next installment, he'll draw a parallel between Moses, who lived in the

wilderness for 40 years, and those inevitable moments when we feel like we're doing the same.

Let's resume our study in the book of Exodus. Chuck titled this message,

The Desert, School of Self-Discovery.

How interesting of God to put Moses through 40 years in a desert and to turn right around and lead

him to the children of Israel who were then led to 40 years in the desert under his leadership.

You thought about that? He had 40 years in the desert so that he might know how to lead the people of God in a desert.

If you try to shortcut your desert, you will lead yourself into a cul-de-sac.

God not only builds a desert for us, but he builds those escape routes that we

think we can take, and he ends them all with cul-de-sacs. Many people spend their time going from

one cul-de-sac to another cul-de-sac to another cul-de-sac trying to get out of the desert, and they get

dizzy in the process. God says you're going to stay right

where I put you until I move you. The alternative is a cul-de-sac. Moses learned what it was to share

his life with his wife, to share his life with two children, and there's nothing like little children,

to humble those most advanced in education. It's remarkable what a PhD does with little children.

Remarkable. And here is Moses with his degrees as long as his arm changing diapers, helping

them eat, feeding little children. And you picture that? You ever seen a PhD try to feed

little children?

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