Do You Have a Cloud Cover?

Some people have a cloud cover over their lives…

They’re clouded-in, unable to see beyond the immediate.

It’s almost as if you can see the haze that surrounds and constrains them.

In the Old Testament, during Israel’s journey through the desert to their Promised Land, God gave them a sign to indicate when they should camp and when they should advance.

The sign for waiting was a cloud hovering over the Tabernacle—and the sign for advancing was when the cloud lifted.

“Now whenever the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out on their journey… But if the cloud did not rise, they remained where they were until it lifted.” (Exodus 40:36-37)

“Whether the cloud stayed above the Tabernacle for two days, a month, or a year, the people of Israel stayed in camp and did not move on. But as soon as it lifted, they broke camp and moved on.” (Numbers 9:22)

Using this Old Testament example as an analogy: when we have a cloud cover—a thick, dark haze over our lives—we cannot advance… but when the clouds lift, we are able to move forward.

The writer of Ecclesiastes also used the “cloud” analogy: “Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud—frustrated, discouraged, and angry.” (Ecclesiastes 5:17).

So many people are clouded-in with past hurts and failures, insecurity, bitterness, fear, depression, and other negative emotions.

These clouds always hinder vision and progress.

Jesus didn’t save us so we could take 2 steps forward, and then get stuck for the rest of our lives!

I love what 2 Corinthians 3:18 says, “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory… by the Spirit of the Lord.”

In other words, God’s plan for our lives includes a lifting of the veil—or the lifting of the thick, heavy, dark clouds that hover over us.

God transforms (changes) us to become more and more like Him… going from glory to glory, level to level.

He wants our vision to go to a whole notha level!

It’s time for the cloud cover to lift.

It’s time to see again.

It’s time to move forward, to advance.

Ask God to lift that cloud cover of (___you fill in the blank___) from your life and restore your vision today.