A family road trip starts with dreams of Disneyland but quickly devolves into complaints, blame, and chaos. Moses faced something far harder: leading a people from slavery to freedom, only to watch them reject the promised land itself and wander forty years in the desert. The heart, Deuteronomy 30 suggests, is the real problem—and no change of scenery will fix it.
An ox knows who feeds it; a donkey knows its master’s crib. But what about God’s people — including us? We forget.
We’ve always been better at hailing the leader who delivers what we want than trusting the one God has actually sent. Way back in Numbers 12 and 16, even Moses’ own family turns on him for not being the kind of leader they expected. Can we see God’s working any more clearly than they did?
The common assumption is that God is unjustified when dealing with rebellion. However, during our times of wandering none of us are really as innocent as we would like to think and our sins are a bigger deal than we think. What do we do with this reality check? Check out this episode to find out how God shapes our hearts during sin.