LESSONS FROM HISTORY

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 for precedents. He reiterates parts of it to form spiritual lessons that unveil to us the character of the Lord; to reveal His likes and dislikes.

This story refers to a time when the children of Israel camped by a Moabite city. Balak, the Moabite King hired Balaam the prophet to curse them, but Balaam, under the threat and inspiration 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 fornication and idolatry with the Moabites, and therefore brought down a curse upon (Numbers 25).

The Lord must get very frustrated with us sometimes. He gives us His Word to lead and guide us; He even works for us as He foils the enemy’s plans against us. The question then to ask ourselves is: as individuals or even as a corporate groups, how many of our problems, sicknesses and our financial difficulties How many of our sociaux-political problems and family breakdowns are self-inflicted, due to our disobeying His rules of conduct because of 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.