Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is Ascension Presents.

So I know I always say this that I work with college students, but I'm always working

with people who are asking about God's will on their lives.

Like, and I find this across the board, not just college students, but so many of us,

we want certainty.

We all want certainty when it comes to following God.

And so we think, okay, God, why isn't God more clear with what He wants me to do?

And if He just would just reveal His will to me, I would totally do it, but why doesn't

God reveal anything to me?

Now, I was thinking about this because I was reading Exodus chapter 40 just the other day.

And it's the last chapter of the book of Exodus.

And what it describes is this.

It describes how Moses went to the meeting tent.

What happened was, here's the people of Israel, they're in the wilderness.

And Moses, when it said, whenever the cloud of glory, the Shaqinah cloud, that glory of

the Lord came down upon the tent, then they would go worship.

When the cloud, the Shaqinah cloud, that glory cloud, moved, went up, and then moved,

they would follow it.

And I was thinking about this and thinking, okay, so we look back on the story and we think,

oh my gosh, that'd be so great because, you know, here's God very, very, very clear about,

okay, get up and move now, get up and pray now, very, very clear.

But I'm thinking about this and thinking, wait a second, they were probably days, weeks,

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