Are you big on trip-planning down to the minute? You may not have fared well on this one...

“Had we been living as nomads in the Desert of Sinai some fourteen or fifteen centuries before Christ we might have witnessed a most amazing sight. We might have come upon an immense company of strange people marching in orderly procession through that arid wilderness, and had we challenged them as to their destination, they would have informed us that they were bound for Canaan, a land flowing with milk and honey, which Jehovah, their God, had promised them. Had we asked as to what route they were following, and how long their journey would be, they would have confessed ignorance. However, they would hasten to assure us that they were not lost, and would call our attention to a great luminous cloud ahead of them. “That,” they would say, “is the Presence of our God. All we need to do is to keep our eye on Him and to follow where He leads. We don’t know the way, but we know the Guide!”
(The Holy Spirit at Work by C. Ernest Tatham)

What a remarkable picture of the Spirit’s daily work in us. How gracious of our Lord to leave “another Helper” to illumine our path (John 16:14,15) as He guides us along it (John 16:13), staying close as our constant Companion (John 14:16). What better directions can we have than that?