Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal

Sunday January 30th, Micah 6: (The LORD’s Case Against Israel and therefore against you and I) 3 “My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me. 4 I brought you up out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of slavery. I sent Moses to lead you, also Aaron and Miriam. 5 My people, remember what Balak king of Moab plotted and what Balaam son of Beor answered. Remember your journey from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.” There are some who were born on third base and think they hit a triple, and then there are the rest of us who have been walked to third base and think we hit a triple. Either way we fail to see the hand of God in our day to day endeavors. After all the blessings that the Lord has showered us with in our lives, in looking back we see the single set of footsteps in the sand and think we got there on our own. If we do happen to see two sets of footprints in the sand, we think it might be someone coming to steal what we have accomplished. The original temptation in the Garden was to eat of the tree and become like gods. It is a temptation that follows each one of us every day. But there are moments when God breaks through and we get a glimpse, just a glimpse, of all we have as a gift. There where God breaks through and we get a glimpse, just a glimpse all we have in a society has been built on the backs of someone else, many of whom are still alive and are the ones Jesus calls your neighbor and now waits for you to treat them kindly instead of trying to vote down their healthcare.