When you travel you are always between the place you left and where you are going. The children of Israel had just left Elim and were on their way to Sinai. Elim was like a vacation resort. It had twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. Sinai would be a hard meeting place with the Lord. It is where they learned that freedom can only be found by living God’s way.

“The Wilderness of Sin” is the place between: A place of testing and learning to trust God. FREEDOM WITHOUT GOD is short lived; it comes with needs that only God can supply such as food, water, and protection.

The whole congregation complained against Moses. It probably started with a few, and it soon grew. A friend once said to me, “Every dog on the hill was barking last night, and only one knew what it was barking about.” A complaining spirit can be like that: from a few to the whole community, with only one or two who know what it is all about.

If Heaven would ask, “Where are you?” What would our answer be? “I’m traveling through the Wilderness of Sin, I’m somewhere between the cross and resurrection, between the sunset and the dawning of a new day. I am living in a land of many blessings, a lot of ingratitude, and even more mercy.”

The song says, “Sad broken hearted, at an alter I knelt, I found peace that was so serene. And all that He asks is childlike trust, and a heart that is learning to lean. Learning to lean, learning to lean, I’m learning to lean on Jesus; finding more power than I’ve ever dreamed, I’m learning to lean on Jesus.”