The first four chapters of Deuteronomy review the journey from the giving of the law at Mount Sinai to when they reached the land of Moab at the edge of the Jordan River. In the first chapter Moses reminds them that God’s plan was to bring them right into the land of promise and as we read Moses’ account in 1:26-27 “Nevertheless you would not go up but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; and you complained in your tents, and said, ‘Because the Lord hates us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.”
Oh, dear ones how many times like the Israelites do we fail to trust our loving Father and fail to enter in to His promises towards us then blame Him for our condition and the time in the wilderness of our own making?
In the 2nd chapter, Moses reviewed their journey after they failed to trust God through 38 years of wandering and emphasized God’s continual hand of deliverance from those who dwelt in the land they were wandering through even though they continued to be faithless. There is a continual theme in these chapters of God’s faithfulness contrasted against the nation’s faithlessness.
Hey wait a minute that looks a lot like our journey in this life does it not?