From Egypt to Palestine
Where was the failure in the picture of the descendants of Israel being brought from lives of slavery in Egypt to being laid in sandy graves on the trip to Palestine? Should Moses have done a better job communicating the vision Yahweh had for His People? Should the people have spent more time studying the Scriptures? Can’t be that – there were no Scriptures. Should the people have been hungrier for a righteous God than they were to get free from Egyptian persecution? Were they not paying enough attention to the announcements and the object lessons Yahweh was offering them most days?
How much of our lives are we missing the understanding we need about what our purposes and identities really are? What are we missing about the values and culture of the Kingdom of Heaven, which, if we grasped it, would make all our decisions simple and easy? What is happening in our lives, which, if we were to stop looking at it as hindrance, would be directly related to lessons about our God’s identity and values, about what He thinks our identities and purposes are, and about the provision we need for what’s next?
Regarding the Israelis on the journey from Egypt to their purpose in the earth, Paul wrote: “They all ate the same spiritual food, and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the desert.
Now these things became examples for us, so that we will not desire evil as they did. Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play. Let us not commit sexual immorality as some of them did, and in a single day 23,000 people fell dead. Let us not tempt Christ as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes. Nor should we complain as some of them did, and were killed by the destroyer. Now these things happened to them as examples, and they were written as a warning to us, on whom the ends of the ages have come.”
(1 Corinthians 10:3-11 HCSB ©®)
Exodus through Joshua is good reading regarding how to be the best you it is possible to be in the coming days. Study up. Be awesome.