Where is the Cloud Today?
Where is the cloud today?
"..in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel pitched their tents."Â Â Numbers 9:17
The cloud determined if it was resting or moving day.
In the miracle of the Exodus, in God's plan for the People of God, over the Tabernacle was ever a pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.Â
This phenomenon was the mechanism God ordained to direct the Children of God through their wilderness journey. If the cloud moved, it was a signal; it's time to move. If the cloud stayed, they knew, "We will stay in our tents and rest."
For the priest, when the cloud moved, there was a tremendous amount of preparation, packing, wrapping, loading, and carrying was required. They would not know the day before. At any moment, the cloud would move, and when it did, tremendous work was involved.
When it was a resting day, they better rest because the moving day was a lot of work.
There are many other observations to be made from this little fact of their movement during this miraculous transition.Â
The scripture does not state this, but I believe one could predict that the manna manifested around the cloud. The quails fell around the cloud.  That rock that followed them, I suggest that rock was following the cloud.  They would lose the light, the cover, and the refreshing life-saving water if they stopped following the cloud.
Where is the cloud of God today?  Am I living under the shadow of the cloud, or has it moved while I have stayed? Maybe this might be why I am not being fed, watered, and scorching under the heat of this day?
Where is the Cloud?
My prayer,
Lord, I want to live by, around, and under the cloud. When it moves, please help me to be looking and ready to stop my plans and flow, roll, and go with it.