40 Years - A Song About Moses

I wrote this poem/song a few years ago as a sort of meditation on the end of the book of Deuteronomy. Recently, my church has been reading the One Year Bible, and we are finishing Deuteronomy soon. I wanted to record and share this song to bless and encourage my brothers and sisters.

Words:

Did you have the forty years in mind
when you took us from the road
and made our dry feet wander
from the safety of the shore?
No matter where you led us,
you always went before;
by night there was a fire where,
by day, there had been smoke.

Did you anticipate our grumbling
when our hunger swallowed hope?
Did you know we would grow thirsty
and drink water from a stone?
Did you know we'd feel abandoned
when you swore we weren't alone,
that by night there'd be a fire where,
by day, there had been smoke?

Why you led us where you led us
I'm sure I'll never know.
We traveled so much farther than
our feet wanted to go,
but there were strangers on the outskirts
each morning when we woke.
By night there was a fire where,
by day, there had been smoke.

Did you have the forty years in mind
when you took me from the road?
Did you know those years would keep me
from calling this my home?
Somehow you've used this disappointment
to teach me how to hope
that tonight there will be fire where,
by day, there had been smoke.

Now I know my days are numbered;
I can feel death's quick approach.
I will die here on this mountain,
not in the land of which you spoke.
My spirit's shrugging off this body
like some clothes it has outgrown,
but as my eyes are darkening,
I'm holding on to one last hope:

That tonight there will be fire where,
by day, there was just smoke.
That tonight you will be fire where,
by day, you were just smoke.