The First Time I Have Noticed a Middle-of-the-Sentence "Selah."

"O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah" (Psalm 68:7a)

So, after my little revelation yesterday about verses, I come across this one, where the "Selah" is in the middle of a sentence, so I had to stop and think about what was so important in the first part of the sentence that it deserved a "repeat sign" (for all you musicians out there!).

This made me think of the verses I had just read in Numbers about how the pillar of cloud by day or pillar of fire would lift from the tabernacle and move to let the children of Israel know it was time to tear down the tabernacle and their tents and go to another location, with the pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night moving before them to show them the way.  Numbers 9:23 sums it up; it says, "At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment of the LORD they journeyed:  they kept the charge of the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses."  When the cloud moved, it was time to move.  They obeyed, but they could always see the will of the Lord visually. 

We, too, are marching through a wilderness.  We should always be on the look-out to see if our cloud is moving, praying and fasting to seek God's will for us, to see if it is time to step out into the unknown to follow the will of the Lord, or if it is time for resting in our tents, either marching forward or resting, never moving backwards!!  As long as we are following the Lord in obedience, we have comfort knowing we are in His will. 

That is a place I want to be!!

P.S.  The rest of that sentence tell us in verse 8, "The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God:  even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel."  God blessed them with His very presence!  (The rest of the psalm is FULL of wonderful promises!!!)