in the city—in places of comfort, convenience and company. God does not intend to make it no wasteland. He intends, rather, to keep us—to hold us with His strength, to sustain us with His sure words—in a place where there is nothing else we can count on. God did not guide them by the road towards the Philistines, although that was the shortest; . . . God made them go round by way of the wilderness towards the Red Sea (Exod. 13:17-18). Imagine what Israel, and all of us who worship Israel’s God, would