For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.
(1 Corinthians 10:1-5, NASB)
What’s that old saying? Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it (something like that). It’s true for us Christians as well.
We are so tremendously blessed. Tremendously blessed. We have been blessed with provision and protection. Our needs are met. We are blessed with friends and family. Most of all, we are blessed by God’s grace, both at the moment of our salvation and then throughout our lives.
God’s chosen people were equally blessed. They were supernaturally released from slavery in Egypt. They were miraculously brought through the Red Sea. They were given food and water in the middle of the desert. They were promised a land flowing with milk and honey.
They were tremendously blessed.
And yet, they doubted. They whined. They complained. They built false idols. They promised to serve God, and yet they turned away time and time again. And because of their sin and lack of faith, an entire generation didn’t enter that promised land.
Have we learned from their mistakes?
Or do we forget how God has blessed us and try to do things our own way? Do we build our own idols? Do we look to the world for gratification?
We can learn from history. We can do things differently than those who came before us.
Or we can be doomed to repeat their mistakes.
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