Leaving and Camping

So I'm reading in Numbers (yes STILL).  And Numbers is really probably the very last place I would think that anything of any significance would jump out at me.  


But I was reading there today and it was all about leaving and camping... leaving and camping... leaving and camping... Everybody left their homes and camped.  I am an excellent storyteller, I know.  So then after all this leaving and camping, all of a sudden (and maybe it wasn't all of a sudden; it could have been 100 years, it certainly felt that way reading it) God gives them a place to settle, to call home.  And guess what.  It wasn't Utopia.  It wasn't like The Garden of Eden 2.  He gave them this land filled w/idols that they were responsible for destroying and sinners they had to drive out.  Then (to add to the blessing?) He told them if they didn't get rid of all that crap, that He would treat them the same way He had planned on treating the current inhabitants...


Now I don't remember what happens next.  I don't know why I'm not just going back over Numbers all the time *place in which sarcasm font would come in handy,* so maybe I'll change my mind.  But I just think it's interesting.  Interesting that God would lead them from their own homes, uproot them and drag them all over hell and half of Egypt to give them yet another struggle and a decision that could cost them everything.  I wonder if he was purifying them.  Like all those other stories about melting down gold or whatever, or pruning the vines or burning the chaff.  I just wonder.  I feel like that sometimes.  And sometimes I think sheesh, maybe I prefer camping.  I mean ticks and poison ivy are nuisances yes, but idols and enemies???  Are you serious???


And here ends my pointless post for the day.  Sorry.  I don't have anything else.  I did think it was interesting though, and for Numbers, that's sayin' something!  : )