My very first Pathfinder campout as a kid was to Lake Whitney in Texas. The same lake we will be taking our new Pathfinder club in October for a Union Pathfinder Camporee. The first night a big ol' Texas Thunderstorm rolled through...

In Genesis where you pitch your tent can tell a lot about the desires of your heart. Look at the story of Lot and Abraham.

It is important to pay attention where you pitch your tent... Directors of the Alvarado, Texas Pathfinder club, backpacking near Hamm Creek on the Brazos River. No trails, almost dark when we arrived at campsite. We set our tents in stream bed. During the night the rain came down and the creek came up...

God must like the simple things of life. During a time when people could build things like the pyramids, He instructs his people to use a tent for the first sanctuary. Well designed and beautiful but still a tent.

Before that wilderness Sanctuary was built, there is another tent mentioned in Exodus. While God was giving Moses the instructions to build the Sanctuary, the people were building a golden calf. God threatened to destroy the lot of them calling them a "stiff necked people." It was then that we find the story about the "Tabernacle of meeting."

When a storm comes you can choose to stand in the rain, or you can get into the tent. Even if the storm is your own doing, you can still seek God. The tent in the story represented God and His church. I have met many people who when things are going bad, storms are in their lives, they stay away from church. They stop praying to God. They stand out there alone and get soaked and are even more miserable.

Not all Storms are "Messages from God." Some are from the adversary, and some are just nature being nature.

Sometimes the storms are God's Judgements or a way of getting our attention, but He always makes a way of escape.

The shelters that God made previsions for was the Ark and a great Fish. Noah submitted to God and he and his family went into the ark. Jonah submitted to God and had the men throw him overboard. Life is too big and overwhelming to take on alone. The best thing is to submit to God and enter into His tent.