From Rescue to Residence | Exodus 40:34–38

Exodus tells the story of a God who isn't distant, but moves toward His people in power and mercy. God reveals Himself as I Am, leading Israel out of slavery and into the life-changing reality of His presence. Well, we are in our last week in our series in Exodus.

It's week 25. We've made it to the end of the book, and so I want to just encourage you to have your Bibles handy, your series guide as well. It's been a remarkable journey through this 40-chapter book, and admittedly we took a high view, kind of a survey-level perspective, but it was necessary because our intent was to gain an understanding of the main thrust of the book, and that's the word presence that really describes Exodus from a 30,000-foot view.

And so we really followed and tracked that theme, and we'll continue that today as well as we wrap things up in Exodus 40. So have your Bibles there, your series guide, Exodus 40 is where we're going to be. What we're going to see today is really a very culminating set of verses.

It's the visible, overwhelming manifestation of God's glory filling the tabernacle. And of course, when this occurs, it signals that He has now come to dwell with His people. That's what He promised, and then we're going to see the fulfillment of that today.

So what began with deliverance from Egypt has now culminated in His dwelling with them and them with Him. We're going to see also it means He will be directing them going forward. Now a word about last week as we prepare for this final week.

Last week, as we got up to this point, it was five chapters, and it was very practical. It's what I would call applicationally practical. We talked about giving, sacrifice, serving, your time, submitting to God's Word, obedience.

Like these are very shoe-leather, rubber-meets-the-road kind of elements. And I'm not saying they're fun to talk about, but they're not hard to understand, right? We get the point. It was very clear, practically application in every way.

Today will be practical, but it's going to be theologically practical. I'm going to ask you to journey with me in your mind through some concepts, perhaps definitions, multiple scriptures that not only show us how Exodus culminates, but really what Exodus points to. So we're ready for a journey.

I'm very excited. So let's get started, can we? The five concluding verses of Exodus, and can I just say to you, I'm excited that it's not five chapters. I think preaching can take different styles.

In narratives, you do need to take longer sections. That's just the way it works. It's a story that you're trying to communicate to people, so sometimes there's a chapter or more.

And to be faithful to the text, you have to kind of take it that way. But my favorite kind of preaching is usually just a few verses. If I were to really just feel my chest cavity back, my favorite kind of preaching is typically one word.

I would just love to kind of dig into a word and extrapolate and just sit in that and soak in that. But you know, that's not always good for everyone every week. And so the Bible is not written in epistolary fashion from start to finish.

There's narratives, there's poetry. And so we just have to kind of vary our styles. And this series has been 25 weeks and 40 chapters.

That's pretty high level. But today we get to conclude with just putting our teeth into five verses. And so I'm especially stoked for this.

To do so, why don't we just go to our lab? If you're new or have not been here to experience our lab, sometimes we will just kind of visually demonstrate what it looks like to kind of work through a scripture. So we're going to do that this morning, 34 to 38. I'll read them.

You follow along. I'm just going to kind of show you how we arrive at what they mean. We'll see what they mean then or what they meant then.

We'll see what they mean now. All right, let's dig in. Verse 34, the cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey. If the cloud was not taken up, they did not set out until the day it was taken up.

For the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and there was a fire inside the cloud by night, visible to the entire house of Israel throughout all the stages of their journey. Five verses concluding 40 chapters. What is Moses saying to us inspired by the Holy Spirit that's culminating, that's so weighty that would help summarize really all that's happened in these chapters? Well, as you can tell, there were a couple of phrases that were repeated.

When you're starting your Bible, you want to look for repeated phrases. That's one of the ways that you can garner clues for what's going on in the text. You'll notice two phrases are mentioned in 34 and 35, so we're going to circle that section.

We're going to see really that's the first section within this set of verses in which Moses is communicating what happened at that moment. Then you're going to see another section really where there's another phrase repeated. It's 36 to 38.

Moses in this section tells what happened after that moment. So let's look at that. The two repeated phrases, first of all, verse 34, the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

This is how verse 36 ends. The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. So guess what happened at the conclusion of Exodus? What's he describing in that moment? Say it with me.

The glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Now I'd encourage you to understand how uncontainable this is. So much so that Moses could not even enter.

Keep in mind, he was the only one who could enter. Not even Moses can enter now because the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Now when you think about this, what we're seeing here is that really God is bringing to completion what He promised.

This is the end of the arc of Exodus. In fact, can I just share with you, I think I can provide for you the arc of Exodus in six texts, six passages that will show you this really is the culmination of what was initially promised. The entire book really kind of moves this direction.

You could say this is the axis, it rotates around it. This is the point of Exodus. Let me give you these six texts, these six references.

Write these down. I'll read portions of them to you. Exodus 3, 12, when God promised to Moses even before he got to Egypt, he said this, I will certainly be with you, Exodus 3, 12, and this will be the sign to you that I am the one who sent you.

When you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship God at this mountain. In that very first promise, God is saying, my intentions are greater than getting you out of Egypt. My intentions are to bring you to myself.

He again says this in Exodus 6, 7, there's your second point in the arc. He says, I will take you as my people, I will be your God. So there's more than geography happened here.

There's relational and covenantal connections. The next one is Exodus 19, 4. Listen to this poetic way that God said, I carried you on eagle's wings and brought you to myself. This moves to Exodus 25, verse 8. It's very explicit here.

They are to make a sanctuary for me so that I may dwell among them. Here's your first logistical maneuver. So he says initially, Moses, I promise you're going to be at this mountain.

I'll bring you to myself. I want to be your God. You'll be my people.

That will happen when you build this tabernacle. That's Exodus 25 and Exodus 29, verses 45 and 46. He says, I will dwell among the Israelites.

I will be their God. They'll know that I am the Lord. I brought them out of the land of Egypt so that I might dwell among them.

And then that leads to this culminating set of verses today where his glory fills the tabernacle. Moses says it twice. It's so overwhelming, Moses cannot even enter himself.

And so we see the great objective of Exodus occurring right here. It has been realized. God is dwelling among his redeemed people.

So presence was the goal. And God fulfilled his word. Notice the last three verses here, because it shows us that his presence, though it was the goal, it also did something else.

His presence guided them. Do you see the phrase here that I mentioned twice, throughout all the stages of their journey and then surrounding that is this idea of the cloud and the pillar of fire that if it doesn't move, we don't move. And it was very visible.

In fact, this phrase that the fire inside the cloud by night was visible to the entire house of Israel. So this is what was happening every time God called them to move, to set out, to begin the journey again, he led the way. So this is really the guiding presence of God.

So 34 and 35, his presence was the goal. 36, 37, 38, his presence was their guide. Here's some other words you can write down in your series guide.

The first set of verses is about destination. The last three are about direction. The first couple of verses, they're more about fulfillment.

The last three, following. Just kind of log those. This is how Moses is concluding this section.

And by the way, you can also track the arc of God's guiding presence throughout Exodus. Let me give you just a few references here. Jot these down.

In Exodus 13, 21 and 22, listen to this, the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on their way. It was always his intent to lead them through this pillar of, in the day and of course the fire at night. Look at Exodus 14 verses 19 through 20.

Then the angel of God who was in front of the Israelite forces moved and went behind them. The pillar of cloud moved from in front of them and stood behind them. This is when they were facing the Egyptians at the Red Sea.

So God was leading them, protecting them, guiding them. Exodus 33 verses 14 and 15, when God repeated and assured them his presence would go with them, it was through the cloud and the fire. And that culminates here of course in 36 through 38.

So somewhat classroomish, a lot to kind of take in, but do you see what's happening? Do you see how this is the culminating moment for the entire book? God's presence, can I use this phrase, has arrived. It is now dwelling among the people and it is now guiding them and it will guide them. So God's presence was the goal.

God's presence is their guide. God did not merely give them somewhere to go. God gave them someone to follow.

That's Exodus. So that's what's happening then. It's the culminating final moment described by Moses.

Can we put this in a sentence? Here's how I'd word this. The God who led them out is the God who will lead them on. Very simple way to say it.

Two things are in view here. There's redemption. There's deliverance out of Egypt.

There's also mission onward to the promised land. Deliverance, direction, redemption, mission. You can think of other words like fulfillment, following.

These are all just kind of synonyms to say the same thing that the God who led them out is the God who will lead them on. That's what was going on then. That's what Moses records for us.

But what about now? Because Exodus is not an end unto itself. It's part of a larger arc. It has an arc within it, yes.

A narrative always does. But it's part of a larger story, a bigger arc. And this is where Exodus 40, verses 34 to 38, they have implications for us now.

We look back at then and we ask, what about now? Because Israel had the presence of God among them in the tabernacle, yes. But the biblical story doesn't end with a tent in the wilderness. What Exodus anticipated, Jesus fulfills.

So let's talk about this set of verses from the angle of now by noting first of all that John 1, 14 is the fulfillment of this very section. John 1, 14 says this, the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us. Your Bible may say dwelled among us.

It's the same word for tabernacle. And so in this case, in Exodus, in the arc of that book, God does move into the tabernacle and dwell among His people. But in the larger arc of Scripture, God moves in among His people in the person of Christ, the second person of the Trinity.

And so this is, in John 1, 14, the fulfillment of what Exodus is pointing to. That's why we can say we should not apologize for this, but we do need to explain it. We can say God's presence is our goal.

God's presence is also our goal. Now what do we mean by that? Listen to some similar language in the New Testament to the truth that God's presence should be a prioritizing matter for us. Here's John 14, 23.

Jesus said, if anyone loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. You can just begin to think in your mind what home means.

You're not just stopping by. You're not just checking in like a hotel. There's something about residence and relationship.

Jesus said, if you keep His word and you love Him and you know Him, He and the Father will make their home with you. That's presence. Here's 1 Corinthians 3, 16.

And it's a rhetorical question that Paul asks those believers. He says, don't you yourselves know that you are God's temple and that the Spirit of God lives in you? That's presence. God's Spirit lives in His people.

Paul's actually surprised they don't know this. Here's Ephesians 2, speaking of the church. In Him you are also being built together for God's dwelling in His Spirit.

We are being built collectively as a dwelling for God's Spirit. So I want you to hear this. Our goal, it's God's presence.

Now what do we mean by that? I want you to hear me very clearly on this. I'm so glad at this point that it is recorded. Because we're born again, we already have His presence.

Hallelujah. Praise the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. He has come.

He has ascended. He and the Father, the Holy Spirit proceeded from the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit lives inside the hearts of all His believers.

So we have His presence. We're not trying to get God to move in. He already has.

Amen, church? But it's not wrong to say our goal is His presence because here's what we're saying. We're saying we treasure His presence. We're not arguing do we have His presence.

I'm asking you, do you treasure His presence? Because those are not necessarily the same thing. You could probably look at some of your homes or the homes of those you know and you would say they live under the same roof, but they're not really present all the time. And then you could look at some homes and like, man, that place, it must be a joy to live there.

Both have presence, but one treasures it and values it. The other does not. You see, what we desire is for God's presence in us, which is a fact to be our highest good and prize.

The relationship we cultivate, the fellowship we enjoy, it's the priority around which everything else is ordered. God's presence. We want to know Him more deeply, enjoy Him more fully, walk with Him more closely.

That's what we mean when we say His presence is our goal as well. That we want to prioritize and value His presence. It's the right estimation of who is in us.

Here's what we don't mean when we say that. When I say that God's presence is our goal, here's what we don't mean. We're not saying that we need to try to chase a feeling.

We're not encouraging you to pursue an atmosphere or to go after some kind of unusual spiritual experience, not at all. Those are all byproducts. There are atmospheres and moments that are overwhelming when the manifestation of God's power is present and they can be, they are experiential.

You do experience it, but they're the byproducts. They're not the goal. As I heard this past Friday, they're the prongs, not the diamond, right? They're the setting, not the stone.

So I'm 100% saying to you, don't try to produce a setting, treasure the stone. And what you'll find is settings will supernaturally occur by God's spirit. We are essentially saying this, when we say God's presence is our goal, we want to pursue the God who has revealed Himself in His Word as His Holy Spirit opens our eyes and minds to who He is.

He has self-revealed Himself. He has taken the initiative to let us know who He is and what He's like. So as we read and as we learn, God's spirit opens our eyes.

That's the only way anyone sees the glory of Christ, glory of God in the face of Christ. And so God's spirit does that. And then we begin to value and treasure what is already true.

God is present. So we're not trying to manufacture His presence. We simply mean we're moving towards His presence, moving towards what we know is already true.

God is with us. Are you hearing this, church? God is with you. God is with us.

That should revolutionize our life. It should revolutionize this gathering, every single campus, every location, every room. God is with us.

That's our goal. Think about the guiding presence of God in the now moment. We saw it then, right? Listen to these verses about how God guides His people now.

John 14. I will ask the Father, Jesus said, and He will give you another counselor to be with you forever. And then He describes this counselor, His Holy Spirit, in this way.

He remains with you and will be in you. God is with you. He is present.

Treasure that. Here's John 16, 13. He describes this even more when He says, the Spirit of truth will come and He will guide you into all the truth.

Clear guidance language. Here's Galatians 5.25. This is a very kind of practical language we use. If you live by the Spirit, then keep in step with the Spirit.

Or I like the phrase, can you keep up, please? You ever done that when you're on a walk with all your kids or maybe even your spouse? The other night, Julie and I were walking, and for some reason I was slow, and she was extra fast. So about three steps behind her, I just said, hey, can you wait up? And she goes, well, can you keep up? I sense this is kind of what Paul is saying here. He's saying, hey, keep up with the Spirit.

Keep in step with the Spirit. But he's acknowledging the way God guides us is through His Spirit, moment by moment, step by step. Perhaps my favorite verse is Matthew 28, in which upon commissioning His disciples to make disciples among all peoples, He says this.

He does not give strategy. He does not explain a method. He assures them of His presence.

I love this. He says, and I'm with you always to the end of the age. God is with you.

God is with you to guide you. So just as was true for Israel, that His presence was the goal and His presence was their guide. Can I say to you, in every right sense of the word, theologically, His presence is our goal, treasuring it, recognizing it, and prioritizing it.

And His presence is our guide, following Him. You see, we have the same, though a few differences, there's way more continuity than discontinuity. There's lots of similarity.

There's a destination. There's direction. There's fulfillment.

There's following. And so we have a then and now. We saw the then take on truth or the then present principle, right? The same, the God who led them out will lead them on.

Well, guess what, church? Here's the presence principle in the now. The God who led us out is the God who will lead us on. The God who redeemed you, who brought you out of your Egypt, He will direct you.

He'll be with you. The God who led us out is the God who will lead us on. Praise His glorious name.

Let me put this into a chart for you. It's a simple way to kind of see the entire text, both the then and the now. Here's a two-column table, you could call it.

Maybe snap a picture of it. We'll put it on our various social media platforms for you to download later if you need to or get it there. This might be a good way just to kind of see this culminating passage in Exodus because it really does describe the then and the now.

There was presence anticipated, but as we look forward to the New Testament, it's presence inaugurated, and they are very similar. Both involve destination, fulfillment. Both involve direction and following.

One is the Old Covenant. One is the New Covenant. One involves the tabernacle and temple.

One involves Christ and His church. But this idea of destination, direction, it's just very central to God's presence. Think about this.

If you were to utilize a GPS, whether it's your phone or your car, you need both of these items to get where you're going. I'm assuming you don't know naturally, but let's say you just need some directions. You can't ask for directions without a what? Destination.

But to have a destination, you need also directions. You could know where you're going, but if they never give you directions, that's not a lot of help. You need both.

Listen, church, for the Christian, God is both of these. He's our destination and He's our direction because He is with us. I just can't say this enough to you.

God is with us. God is with you. If you are a believer and you've trusted Christ, God is with you.

Whatever you're facing, whatever your decision, whatever the mountain, whatever the celebration, God is with you. Now, I think I could end right there and you could go home satisfied. That's Exodus 40 and it's rich.

It's sweet, isn't it? I mean, it's a good meal. I'm feeling full. But can I say to you, the dessert's even better.

Because not only does Exodus have an arc and points to a larger arc, the New Covenant also points to a larger arc. So let me fill in the chart for you. There's one more column.

Because it's not just that presence has been anticipated in the Old Covenant and that it's been inaugurated in the New Covenant, presence will be consummated in the new creation, which is better than the New Covenant. And that's far better than the Old Covenant. So get ready for some wonderful dessert here as we wrap up, can you? Because I think Exodus shows and points to not only the New Testament, but also altogether it shows us what God is doing in establishing His presence among His people in the new heavens and new earth, where His dwelling will be far more personal, far more permanent.

In fact, so personal no one had ever known this kind of dwelling that we'll know in the new creation. Let me read for you what Revelation 21 and 22, how they describe God's presence in the new creation. Hold on to your hats.

This is beautiful. Revelation 21 and 23, John says this, Look, God's dwelling is with humanity. He will live with them.

You may think that sounds pretty familiar. He lived in the tabernacle among the Israelites. He lived with us in the second person of the Godhead.

But here it's God living with humanity, all of those who have believed, and He's living among them. It's a beautiful moment of presence in the new creation. But listen to how John now continues to describe it, because this presence is even different still than the previous two iterations, we'll call it.

Here's Revelation 21, 22, and 23. Because John sees the new creation, and in my opinion, this is an opinion. You hear me? This is what? An opinion.

I think John probably was thinking, where's the temple? He's getting a vision. That's what Revelation is. It's a vision, I believe, in seven recapitulations, each one intensifying.

And he's wondering, okay, I see the Lamb and the Lord, the Lion, yes, but where's the temple? And he gets to Revelation 21, and watch this, I did not see a temple in it, because the Lord, God, the Almighty, and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God illuminates it. It illuminated a temple and a tabernacle in the days of the Old Testament.

It's now illuminating the whole earth. And the temple is the Lord and the Lamb. Its lamp is the Lamb.

So what we have here, watch this, it's unmediated presence. So when Revelation 21 says God is dwelling with all humanity, it's God dwelling without any point of access any longer. That's hard for a preacher to even say, because we preach for our whole life.

There's only one way to God, through Jesus. But in the new creation, it'll be unmediated access. And there'll be no need for a temple.

There'll be no need for sacrifices. God will be present with humanity. It's incredible.

But I got to tell you, it gets even better. Here's Revelation 22, 3, and 5. Let's see if we can get through these. There will no longer be any curse.

The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and His servants will worship Him. They will see His face. His name will be on their foreheads.

That's pretty personal. Night will be no more. People will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will give them light.

And they will reign forever and ever. Are you catching this? Like imprints, seeing God's face, and then forever reigning with Him. That's personal.

That's close. That's presence like you can't even imagine. That's better than the New Testament.

That's better than the Old Covenant. Presence anticipated. Presence inaugurated.

Presence consummated. This is all that Exodus is pointing to. And if you read Exodus and get to chapter 40, and you think, wow, that's a great deal for them, you need to keep reading.

Because the New Testament is fantastic, and the new creation is even better. And this is what God is up to. This is the overall long arc of the timeline of God.

Yes, at Sinai and in the tabernacle and temple, God is present. But there are some barriers that remain, so much so that even in chapter 40, Moses cannot enter the tabernacle. Remember reading that? God's glory filled it.

No room for Moses. In Christ and the New Covenant, yes, God comes extraordinarily near. Through Christ, we have received access by faith.

The Spirit does indwell God's people, yes. But still, as 2 Corinthians 5, 7 says, watch this. We walk by faith, not by sight.

There's still something yet to see. That's why the new creation is so spectacularly wonderful. Because every barrier is gone.

And we will see His face. The face of God. You may wonder in your mind, Todd, it seems like you're minimizing the incarnation.

I mean, Christ came. He's the express image of the Father. Are you sure you want to speak this boldly about the new creation? Let me assure you, we are 100% on board.

And celebrate the incarnation. In fact, ontologically, you cannot get any more God than Jesus. Jesus is not a lesser manifestation awaiting some greater divine person.

Jesus is God. But what changes in the new creation isn't who is present, but our experience of who is present. We experience God's presence with no barriers.

Unmediated presence. Personal. It's almost impossible to describe.

No wonder John had trouble throughout Revelation right at Zion's Lake. I'm trying to describe this. Oh, brothers and sisters, I hope you hear this.

Over the last 25 weeks, this is what Exodus has laid the groundwork for. It's this fundamental principle and progression of our life. It's simply our presence principle in one sentence again.

That God's presence is our goal. God's presence is our guide. That the God who let us out will lead us on.

Lead us on to what? His new creation. His presence with no barriers. Face to face.

So as we close, will you take a walk with me just for a moment in your mind? As a way to review all we've seen, will you just kind of take a walk with me? In fact, maybe you want to just kind of close your eyes. Picture yourself walking. Imagine you're starting in Exodus 40.

You're standing outside the tabernacle. The cloud descends. The glory fills the place.

And you know God is here. The God who heard you in Egypt. He opened the sea.

He fed you in the wilderness. He's now come to dwell with His people. Your heart is full, but you can't go in.

You only can watch from a distance because there are boundaries. You watch sacrifices. There's a veil.

In fact, you're surprised that even Moses can't go in. So yes, God's present, but something still stands between you and God. Keep walking, would you? Because the tabernacle eventually becomes the temple.

And God, He's there. But you notice that the veil is still there as well. And so in some way, you know there's a continued separation to some degree.

You know there's presence, but it's still mediated annually. And so you watch the high priest every year wash his clothes and sacrifice animals and sprinkle the altar and those who are neared. So you're thankful for access, and yet you know that there's still a barrier.

Would you keep walking with me? And as you do, you come upon one night in Bethlehem, a cave. And Jesus Christ is born. And you realize this is God in the flesh.

The God who filled the tabernacle with His glory is now walking in human flesh among people. He is with us in a whole new fashion. No wonder you sing, joy to the world, the Lord is come.

Keep walking with me, because just 33 years later, you now are at Calvary. And this one who is God in the flesh is being hung on a cross and crucified. He's bearing the sins of the world, John would say later.

When you hear Him cry, it's finished. You also look to the temple, and there you see that the veil is now torn. There's nothing separating you, because Christ has now given us permanent access, not just annual access through a priest.

And so your heart is happy, you're joyful. But keep walking. He's buried.

He rises from the dead, and Pentecost arrives. You realize, oh, it's not just the bodily Jesus we have to follow around. God has now given us the Holy Spirit who will be in all of Christ's followers wherever they go.

We're no longer limited to the space and time of one God in the flesh Savior. And so your heart is happy, it's rejoicing. God is dwelling not just with His people in a new way, He's now dwelling in His people.

But oh, keep walking, church, keep walking. Because a few days, a few decades after Pentecost, John sees another city. It's the new city coming down from heaven.

It's the new heaven, the new earth, the new Jerusalem. And here he hears God saying, look, I will dwell with humanity and live with them. And here again, I think John looks for that temple, doesn't see one, doesn't see a temple.

He sees no curtain, no veil, no sacrifice. There's no sin to make us high, there's no death separating us. Everything has been made new.

All has been restored. No one groaning, no creation groaning. And then here comes the most astounding phrase you've ever heard in this entire walk.

At that moment, you hear John say, you will see His face. Now think about where we started when God said in Exodus, Moses, if you see my face, you can't live. Keep the flocks away from the mountain.

Don't let anyone touch it. Everything about God was dangerous and rightly so. In the new creation, He says, you can see my face and you'll live forever.

That's where the Bible ends. Redeemed people looking upon the face of God and living forever. That's what presence, this series, these 25 weeks, that's what it's been about.

That's the journey we've been on. From the burning bush to the pillar of fire, from Sinai to Tabernacle, from Tabernacle to Christ, from Christ to the cross, from the empty tomb to the indwelling spirit, and then from there to His face. Because God's presence is our goal and God's presence is our guide.

So follow Him and treasure Him. Prioritize your life around Him. If you've never come to God through Jesus Christ, today is the day to come.

The way is open. Come to the one who came for you. Trust Him.

Ask God to forgive you through Jesus. Repent and believe the one who died for you, rose for you, and promises to bring you all the way home to see His face. Church, that's why we're walking.

I encourage you because God is with you and you will one day see His face. Do not quit walking. Take your next step.

Get up the next morning. Look the day in the eye. And know that God is with you and will bring you all the way safely home.