(March 24, 2015)
It is
tempting to condemn Israel
for forgetting the Lord despite His wonderful blessings for them. After all, He led them out of Egypt ,
He protected them during the days of David, and He sent Elijah and other
prophets among them to work many miracles.
But
before we condemn them, we ought to spend some time looking at ourselves. After all, haven’t we been blessed by the
Lord? Haven’t we seen His miraculous
power in our lives? Unlike the
Israelites, who were looking backwards into the lives of their distant ancestors,
we have miracles often in our own lives (or, at worst, a few generations in the
past).
It is a
discouraging truth for me that so often I find that the examples of the wicked
in the scriptures apply to me far more often than the examples of the
righteous, but it is my hope that by keeping those examples before my face on a
regular basis I will be able to avoid their fate.
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