as we ask ourselves, why not?

The journey through the physical and the spiritual wilderness is fraught with dangers. The generation that left Egypt saw the power of God, they experienced the mercies of God, they walk and lived by faith, so much so that when they defeated the establish kings Sihon (Deut. 2:26) and Og Deut. 3:1) they had to pinch themselves. Similarly the journey from legalism to freedom in Christ was also fraught with dangers. Those who taught that you had to be circumcised to receive the blessings of the Lord were fighting against the Pauline stance that freedom in Christ meant freedom from the legal restriction of the old covenant and the ability to access the grace of God, see the book of Galatians.  For us today that struggle between legalism and grace still continues. Our forefathers came to the UK with little or nothing, they were promised that they would be able to collect gold from the streets and return after five years to build their big houses, however all they found on the streets was dog muck and broken pavements. After awhile they started to be offered mortgages to purchase houses, motor vehicle and places to worship and then they had to pinch themselves to believe what the Lord had done. Today we need to reflect on the past but not be bound to it. We must understand and recognise that, what God did then he can still do now. And as he blesses us with more and more let us not become like the Israelite of old and start to fight one another like little children, for as the apostle Paul reminds the Galatians, While we remain as minors in our thinking, we will never inherit the things that God has for us (Gal. 4:1-2), but when we grow up we are able to  distinguish between what is beneficial and what is not. So we thank God for the foundation that is laid by those gone before, but now we who remain must answer questions such as why can’t this or that be done? With answers such as; why not? Read Deuteronomy 2 & Galatians 1.