Scripture Reading: Exodus 13:21-22, Psalms 104:3
‘By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light.
He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.’
The religious leaders were to picture themselves as shepherds. In reality, as leaders of the nation, they should have been serving as shepherds of God’s people.