On Sunday, October 23 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, our senior pastor continued in Deuteronomy 29 with his latest sermon series. We looked specifically at why God's People were sitting on the plains of Moab and not already enjoying the Promised Land. Though they had seen God overcome every obstacle--slavery in Egypt, impassable Red Sea, impending army, hunger and thirst in the desert, and so much more, the Israelites still needed true sight to be able to look beyond circumstances like giants in the Promised Land to trust God. Since they lacked faith, they're not enjoying the Promised Land yet. There are consequences for our spiritual health including consequences for our city and our community: Because of the Israelites spiritual blindness, God used 40 years of wandering in the desert to teach them faith.
So we must ask ourselves: What blessings are we being denied because of our spiritual blindness? As verse 29 implies, we must focus on what God has given to us and revealed to us. We aren't required to know the future or to manipulate it; we must live our lives according to what's been revealed. This is our moment as we're less than two weeks away from an election. Let not future generations look back on us and ask: Facing an unknown future, why were Christians so faithless in 2016?
