Dancing With the Holy Spirit

As the Holy Spirit led the Israelites by fire and smoke during their exodus from Egypt, so He wants to do today. What a crazy life to have lived! When the smoke by day or the fire by night stopped, then His people would put up camp; and when the Holy Spirit traveled they wouldn't hesitate to pick up their belongings to follow His leadership. They were totally dependent on Him for every form of guidance as well as sustenance. He wasn't just their tour guide, He also provided food and water. In the morning they would awake to find manna flittering down from the heavens and coating the ground. Can you believe the thrill of it all? When He would take them far from any source of water He would cause rivers of water to flow from rocks!
If any one of them at any point in time decided to go their separate way I can't imagine they would have lived for long before either dying or trembling back to their people and God. As I meditate on the deep significance of this chapter I can't help but think that in God's perspective it must have been more glorious than even the entrance into the promised land. When they arrived they were still dedicated to God, but only for a short time until the subsequent generations became wayward with other gods and values. At least in the wilderness He was their 'true' God, and they leaned on Him with more sincerity than they had at other times.
I find my spirit and soul crying out to God on a regular basis, 'Lord, teach me to be this intimate with Your Spirit. Where I only go when You go, and I stay when You stay. When I only do as I see You doing.' In the Middle East we are going to be 100% dependant on God for our every need. What this means is that we check our own senses of control at the door in order to fully embrace the Holy Spirit as our guide, protector, sustainer, and only God (instead of ourselves). I can imagine that God is greatly anticipating the moments that we will have together where He can say, 'These are my sons and daughters, and I am their God,' and where we can say, 'Dude, You rock above anything else!'
I find myself embracing all opportunities, I view trials as opportunities, as avenues that can instill the only foundation that will be needed to achieve victory in these 'last days'. To be totally dependent on the Holy Spirit, in tune with His voice, and enraptured with His ways (even when they're offensive) I believe is a prerequisite to being effective in the days to come. It can be like dancing. Where we need to know His mannerisms, signals, and heart in order to follow. It can be hard at first, and exasperating, but committing to learn His every way, and how He generally relates to us, will pay off big time!