Deuteronomy 2:1-13
The Lord Jesus, the true Moses, desires that we should remember the wilderness not just as a place where we made many blunders (Deuteronomy 1:32-46) but that we call to mind His unfailing goodness and patience throughout the journey. "The LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing", stated Moses to the people (v. 7). "Lacked ye anything?" Jesus asked His disciples as He left them: "And they said, Nothing" (Luke 22:35). It is in this way that the presence of the Lord with us every day according to His faithful promise (Matthew 28:20) is a guarantee for us that He knows our needs and will meet them by means of His unlimited resources. "He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years . . . " (v. 7). The Lord measures the length of the wilderness and the time it takes to cross it. And what He gives is in proportion to the need.
The moment comes when the divine voice is heard: "Ye have compassed this mountain long enough" (v. 3).
My fellow Christian, we will soon hear the call from heaven which will put an end to our pilgrimage: the well-known voice of the Lord Jesus calling us to meet Him "in the air." What a joyful prospect!