Part of the challenge of God in the wilderness is not to fight the work God is doing in our lives, but to allow ourselves to be held in the wilderness waiting. This is another promise God is making to the Israelites: When you feel stalled in the same place, know that waiting is part of the process. The pillar will move again when the time is right. I am with you in the waiting. Throughout their wandering in the wilderness, the Israelites are led by a pillar of cloud and fire: “And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night. The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people” (Exod. 13:21-22).