When we pray, pray, pray for healing or direction and then God answers and praise God, next day it’s gone. Remember what God says in Deuteronomy chapter 8 as He’s speaking to the people of Israel and He says, “One day you’re going to be in the Promised Land and you’re going to have houses and vineyards and crops and you’re going to be prosperous, and your family is going to grow. It’s going to be a good life for you. And you know what you’ll do? You’re going to forget and you’re going to look around at all that you have and think, ‘I did that.’”
We’ll all prone to that. Look at what you have or your degrees or what you’ve accomplished, or the things that your proud of. It’s okay to be proud of things. You look at a home or a vacation in life and think, “I’ve made it. I’ve done it.” And we forget that God is the one, whatever blessing, praise God from whom all blessings flow. That was the point of Deuteronomy 8 – don’t forget that God did this for you.
So the fact that He needed to give them a memorial tells us he understands the human predicament, prone to wander, Lord, we feel it, prone to leave the God we love.
This clip is part of the sermon “A Memorial of the Lord’s Mighty Hand” delivered by Dr. Kevin DeYoung at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, NC on September 8, 2024.