A Devotional Thought From Deuteronomy

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! Deuteronomy 32:29

In Moses’s last days God gave him a song to teach the people of Israel. It was a song to warn about their future if they were an unfaithful people to God. In the song God details the awful tragedies and punishments that will befall them unless they keep to the straight and narrow and get out of the way of sin. The disasters would hit them hard.

In the midst of the song God says, O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! God wants His people to think and evaluate their lives and behavior. He wants them to look where they’re going. He wants them to ask where is our way of life taking us? He wants them to realize that they are headed to a precipice, and must change direction if they want to avoid disaster.

O that the nations of the modern world would consider where they are going.