Have you figured out how to learn from the past?

Do you learn from the past?  Not just from mistakes but from victories and the good things as well?

My blog entries tend to have certain themes that get repeated?  Obviously, over the years, God teaches and reteaches me through his word key principles that I really need to learn and relearn and I pass them on to you.   

So the thoughts in this email have certainly been shared before…. using different verses probably, but this passage really drove home the thought for today once more for me.

In Deuteronomy 1:31-33 we read:

you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ Yet in spite of this you did not believe the Lord your God,  who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.

It’s almost as though Moses is saying, “Seriously people?  What more is it going to take for you to get it.”

Not only did God go before them and prepared the way…

Not only did God show them which way to go ….

but he carried them — picked them up like a little child … and carried them to a new and better place.

But in SPITE of that, they still murmured and were fearful about crossing the finish line.

We need to learn from the past whenever we face something hard or something new.   God went before us then.  He prepared the way.  He gave us direction.  And when he needed to, he carried us.   So instead of having the same fear and murmuring of the Israelites, let’s learn from the past.  Let’s recognize the truth for what it is.

Whatever God did for us in the past, he’ll do it again.   No need to worry.  No need to murmur.  No need to fear.  He’ll prepare a way when we can’t see where to go.  He will show us which way to go.  And when we need him to, he will carry us.

I am sharing this song because it is one of the the theme songs for the life of my family, but I apologize for sharing it more than once.  It’s so good.  

And another awesome song with this theme: