November 28, 2011 – Deuteronomy 29

21-25 – “Future generations, your descendants who will rise up after you… when they see the calamities of this land and the ills the LORD has inflicted upon it…they and all the nations will ask, “Why has the LORD dealt thus with this land? Why this great outburst of wrath?” .And they will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their ancestors, which he had made with …and they went and served other gods and bowed down to them.”

Will this be what they say about the United States in the future when they look back at us in our fallen state. When the dust settles from what we are going through and we are a shell of what we once were, will they see the connection with us abandoning the covenant we made with God at our founding. When we said that this nation was created under God, that God gave us rights that could never be taken away, that we were built on “these truths” laid down by God. When we have abandoned God and our country continues its descent to wherever we are heading, will they look back on us and wonder why we left God behind. Wonder why we thought we could do it on our own. Wonder how, after seeing God’s goodness and blessings could we abandon Him for our own ideas. History doesn’t repeat itself exactly, but it definitely has a certain theme that is repeated. When I read these words I could not help but think that 100 years from now somebody will look at them and think it speaks directly to the United States, not Moses’ Israel.