Daily Devotion

August 11, 2006

Psalms 106:29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.

The writer of this psalm uses the events in the children of Israel’s desert journey as a platform of precedents. He reiterates parts of it to form spiritual lessons, to teach us the character of the Lord, His likes and dislikes.

This story refers to a time when the children of Israel camped by a Moabite city. King Balak hired Balaam the prophet to curse them, but Balaam, under the threat of the angel of the Lord blessed them instead (Numbers 22,23,24). As the story continues; it tells us that the children of Israel committed idolatry and brought upon themselves the curse (Numbers 25). The Lord must get very frustrated with us sometimes.

As individuals, when the Lord gives us His Word to lead and guide us, when He foils the enemy’s plans against us, the question to ask ourselves is, how many of our problems, sicknesses, financial difficulties, family breakdowns are self-inflicted? As a corporate group such as a company, a city, a church, a country, when the Lord has so beautifully given us His rules of conduct as a society, how much of our social and political breakdown is due to our going after the ‘forbidden fruit’?

It has been said that the only thing we learn from history, is that we don’t learn from history. Can we break this vicious cycle?

1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

Patrick Lumbroso
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