In my neverending quest to read the entire Bible through, I landed in 2 Samuel 7 the other morning. In this chapter, God is speaking to the prophet Nathan about David’s desire to build a permanent temple. God says in the second half of verse 6,

My home has always been a tent, moving from one place to another.

Then it struck me: God moved around a lot!

Well, obviously, God is everywhere all the time; but with this passage, I was thinking in particular about the Ark of the Covenant, the physical representation of the presence of God to the people. The Ark had been moved everywhere the people had moved, for hundreds of years, never having a permanent home anywhere.

God knows what it’s like to move.

He knows the stress of PCS and moving and that unrooted feeling that plagues so many of us military wives. He knows. He’s been there!

This gave me comfort, as I settle in from one move with the full knowledge we’ll be doing this again next summer. I pray it brings comfort to you, too.

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