"Safety In Numbers"

"Thou tellest my wanderings: put Thou my tears into Thy bottle: are they not in Thy book?" (Psalms 56:8) Don't ask, it just jump into my mind as soon as I was getting ready to type something else; I was going to type, "Safe and Secure", and then this happened; weird, I know, but it might be alright in the end. Actually, I was trying to explain something that I heard Pastor Jon saying yesterday, and it was pretty hard to explain in a way that Jon came across; but then again, he has a way of making things blend together; things that you would have never thought were connected, all of the sudden will seem to fit like a glove. He was teaching from the book of Numbers, and long story short, the illustration was concerning the way God formed their camp in the wilderness; based upon the numbers of each of the tribes, and upon the locations of where they were positioned, they actually did form the shape of a cross; if you were to look down upon them from the air, then you would see this giant formation of a cross stretched out in the wilderness. And not only that, but at the head of four tribes, which represented three other tribes, there were banners, each banner represented the lead tribe; one banner was that of a lion, the next of an ox, the next of a man, and the last of an eagle. Then we were told how these four banners matched the creatures that were illustrated in Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4, and how each face represented each of the four gospels. Wow, I was blown away; so much so, that within the span of the next hour after hearing this, I had to try and describe what I had heard to three different people. The bottom line to what this illustrates is so simple, it's as simple as the message of the cross, which just requires us to believe! Here you have maybe three million people, all wandering around in the wilderness, all camping out together, and all the while in the shape of a cross; and heading the cross formation is the gospel messages of the four sides of Jesus: He was a King, He was a Servant, He was a Man, and He was God; the Servant King, and the God Man nailed upon the cross. The point being, in case you were wondering, is that no matter where we aimlessly wander, as long as we are camped in the cross, we are eternally safe...
"In all of their affliction He was afflicted, and the angel of His presence saved them: in His love and in His pity He redeemed them; and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old." (Isaiah 63:9)
"The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and for evermore." (Psalms 121:8)