EVEN AFTER ALL HE DID

Today's reading: Deuteronomy 1-3

"But even after all he did, you refused to trust the Lord your God, who goes before you looking for the best places to camp, guiding you by a pillar of fire at night and a pillar of cloud by day." Deuteronomy 1:32-33 NLT

As verse one of Deuteronomy states, the entire book records the happenings during the wilderness wanderings of the Israelites.

Details. Documentation. An exhaustive list of places, people and powerful displays of God's power.

We have the blessed privilege of reading this book AFTER its occurrence. The Israelites lived it. Lived it out day by day, month by month, year after year for forty years.

It's a book that could be written about us.

This morning's verse says it all...

"But even after all he did, you refused to trust the Lord your God, who goes before you looking for the best places to camp, guiding you by a pillar of fire at night and a pillar of cloud by day." Deuteronomy 1:32-33 NLT

After all He did for the Israelites, they didn't trust Him.

Might we place our own names in there?

After all He did for us, we still don't trust Him--with everything, with this, in regards to, in dealing with, in the matter of...

The One who goes before us?

The One who leads us through the darkest nights? Past and present.

The One who shows up in our day-to-day? In expected places, but also in circumstances where He surprises us completely!

And we still don't trust Him?