The Good With The Badlands
Bread from Heaven. A serpent of bronze. Water from the rock.
What do they have in common? They were God’s provisions to an ungrateful people during their journey in the desert. Even when the Israelites were ready to give up on their commitment to God, the Lord never wavered in His commitment to His chosen ones. God met the people’s needs even when those same people were longing for the “good old days” when they had been slaves in Egypt.
What about you? As we enter this new year, do you find yourself reminiscing about the way things used to be – even if those things weren’t God’s best for you? Like the Israelites, God has freed us from slavery. We were a people enslaved to our sins. Because of this, we are to be committed to the people God has given us to love, to God’s kingdom, and, ultimately, to God Himself. What makes this all possible, even in hard times, is God’s real and true commitment to us. As a people, we are called to take the good with the bad. Or, as in the story about to unfold over the next three weeks, The Good with the Badlands.
