Should we move?

     Interesting passage today in the Liturgy of the Hours. It's probably not a passage that might usually strike me but it seems a timely passage. It speaks to how the Israelites operated. It certainly seems enduring at least and incredibly faithful. Their actions were predicated on the movement of the Lord. Even if we could argue about the movements of clouds, their actions always were based on 'listening' to the Lord. A very good and sound way to live. That alone is a lesson for all. That message is timeless.

      Is there anything else that might make the Israelites move? Perhaps an attack on them or an attack on their God? I think that might get them moving.

      I cannot help but think about the movement of consciences and budging previously immovable objects against a tyrant current occupying the White house of the United States.  His own high jacked party will rarely speak against him even as his motivations are highly suspect. He follows the will of people who for all intents and purposes are fake Christian leaders, still no one speaks out.  This week has been different. The lies this week are against the usual suspects of course, no change there. In addition however, this tribe of thieves and liars has invoked God on their side in a very disturbing way.  

      The collective conscience of citizens reckons it to be not Godly to take children from their parents. If it were in fact a law, the law is recognized as wrong hearted and surely not of any God the people recognize - no matter what denomination.  Godly people moved to action when their God is attacked. Dare I say, 'when you attack the least of my children, you attack Me'.  So there you have it.

         The call to arms, be it in a ballot box or in legal proceedings has begun.  The complacency of the seemingly silent and immovable faithful is stirring more and more.  A call to return to the righteousness of love, compassion, brotherhood and humanity. 

          Whatever we believe, know that God is calling us to action.

Numbers 9:15-23, 10:29-36

On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant; and from evening until morning it was over the tabernacle, having the appearance of fire. It was always so: the cloud covered it by day and the appearance of fire by night. Whenever the cloud lifted from over the tent, then the Israelites would set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the Israelites would camp. At the command of the Lord the Israelites would set out, and at the command of the Lord they would camp. As long as the cloud rested over the tabernacle, they would remain in camp. Even when the cloud continued over the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites would keep the charge of the Lord, and would not set out.Sometimes the cloud would remain for a few days over the tabernacle, and according to the command of the Lord they would remain in camp; then according to the command of the Lord they would set out. Sometimes the cloud would remain from evening until morning; and when the cloud lifted in the morning, they would set out, or if it continued for a day and a night, when the cloud lifted they would set out.Whether it was two days, or a month, or a longer time, that the cloud continued over the tabernacle, resting upon it, the Israelites would remain in camp and would not set out; but when it lifted they would set out. At the command of the Lord they would camp, and at the command of the Lord they would set out. They kept the charge of the Lord, at the command of the Lord by Moses.

Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, ‘We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, “I will give it to you”; come with us, and we will treat you well; for the Lord has promised good to Israel.’ But he said to him, ‘I will not go, but I will go back to my own land and to my kindred.’ He said, ‘Do not leave us, for you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will serve as eyes for us. Moreover, if you go with us, whatever good the Lord does for us, the same we will do for you.’

So they set out from the mount of the Lord on three days’ journey with the ark of the covenant of the Lord going before them for three days’ journey, to seek out a resting-place for them, the cloud of the Lordbeing over them by day when they set out from the camp.

Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say,
‘Arise, O Lord, let your enemies be scattered,
   and your foes flee before you.’ 
And whenever it came to rest, he would say,
‘Return, O Lord of the ten thousand thousands of Israel.’