Who's GPS do you use the most? God's or Man's? Numbers 9-12

Numbers 10:29-32 (NASBStr)

Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father- in- law, “We are setting out to the place of which the Lord said, ‘ I will give it to you’; come with us and we will do you good, for the Lord has promised good concerning Israel.” But he said to him, “ I will not come, but rather will go to my own land and relatives.” Then he said, “Please do not leave us, inasmuch as you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will be as eyes for us. So it will be, if you go with us, that whatever good the Lord does for us, we will do for you.”

In the above passage we have an example of the greatest struggles in the Christian faith and walk with God.   God had provided a supernatural "presence" of Himself for the nation to know He was with them, when to move and when to stay put.   Such is the Holy Spirit in our lives today.  Although not as visible in the fire and the cloud, just as powerful to the one who walks by faith.   Yet, in the midst of Moses was his father-in-law.   Hobab knew the land.  He knew the ways to navigate the land.   Hobab is the picture of the flesh and of earthly knowledge.    Moses, although provided with the Cloud-Fire-GPS system, still wanted his father-in-law to accompany him.  This is our struggle in the Christian walk: Do we walk in the Spirit (who we can't see and struggle to understand) or do we walk in the flesh (that we see, feel, and know)?   We know the Biblical answer for this.  We are to "walk in the Spirit and not fulfill the desires of the flesh" (Galatians 5:17).   Hobab certainly was a valid source of information.  Remember, it was Moses' father-in-law that gave him the advice on how to delegate to save energy.   He would know where the turns were, where the dangers were and what the passage looked like.   However, he wouldn't know "when" to go and he wouldn't know "how" to get water out of rock, food from the sky, or victory through the minimum.   Those were all miracles.  The trouble with fleshly knowledge is that it seldom accounts for miracles.  The world has a knowledge base that we can often turn to for help.  But, the world doesn't know about the God of miracles.  The world's timing is often off, if not always.   In our walk with God we can turn to Hobab (the world) or to the Cloud-Fire (The Spirit) system.   One is visible and shallow, the other powerful and all-knowing.  Learn to yield to the Spirit even when the world says no.