Deuteronomy 1:29-33

Right from the beginning of the book of Deuteronomy we saw that it is the Lord our God who is always present and going before us to fight our battles.

To the Israelites, despite all the displays of His awesome power as the “I AM,” He was never a reality to them that He must be to us! He was before, behind, and over them as the Cloud. He was in their midst in the cloud that covered the mercy seat on the Ark of the Covenant. But to those who saw these things with their eyes He was never the reality to them that He must be to us. We must always see the constant work that is being done completing what “I AM” has started, and will finish perfectly. Just as John Ritenbaugh said regarding John 5:17, "The Father and the Son began working on a project in the indefinite past. Once that project began, They worked without stopping, "hitherto," even now!” Imagine that same pillar is with us to lead and guide us in ways that were impossible to Israel.