Are you being led by The Cloud or by the crowd?
FATHER’S Glory Cloud led the children of Israel through the wilderness. When He stopped, they stopped. When He moved, they moved.
It is recorded by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 78:
14 By day the moving Glory-Cloud led them forward. And all through the night the Fire-Cloud stood as a sentry of light.
The Cloud confirms, but the crowd confuses.
The people were complaining about the giants in the Promised Land even after they had experienced the miracle of being set free from the Egyptians.
Moses recorded by The Holy Spirit in Deuteronomy chapter 1:
31 and in the wilderness where you saw how the LORD Your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’
32 Yet, for all that, you did not believe the LORD your God,
33 Who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the Fire by night and in the Cloud by day.
How can you assess your faith without being tested? It requires faith to take the path that The Holy Spirit directs you to take. Be assured that the crowd will try to redirect your path.
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 7:
13 Enter through the narrow gate because the wide gate and broad path is the way that leads to destruction—nearly everyone chooses that crowded road!
14 The narrow gate and the difficult way leads to Eternal life—so few even find it!”
Why is it difficult to take the narrow path? The crowd will try to influence you to their crowded road. Consider Moses.
Moses also recorded by The Holy Spirit in Deuteronomy chapter 5:
23 “So it was, when you heard the Voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with Fire, that you came near to Me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.
24 And you said: ‘Surely the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His Voice from the midst of the Fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he still lives.
25 Now therefore, why should we die? For this great Fire will consume us; if we hear the Voice of the LORD Our God anymore, then we shall die.
26 For who is there of all flesh who has heard the Voice of the Living God speaking from the midst of the Fire, as we have, and lived?
27 You go near and hear all that the LORD Our God may say, and tell us all that the LORD Our God says to you, and we will hear and do it.’
If you are willing to surrender to the Holy Fire, you will be able to stand in the Presence of GOD. Is it better to hear HIM directly or get a secondhand interpretation of what HE is saying?
King David recorded by The Holy Spirit in Psalm chapter 103:
7 HE made known His ways to Moses, HIS acts to the children of Israel.
We must not be afraid to follow the leading of The Holy Spirit and surrender all to Him. It is the crowd that tries to bring pressure, but it is the Cloud that brings HIS Presence.