Deuteronomy 4:30-31

We are all going to go off the path that God has plotted out for us. We are all going to sin from time to time, but because God is faithful, He is holding the door open for us, like the prodigal son, to come back. Certainly, there are stipulations. There are requirements that we have to meet, and we have to seek Him with all of our heart and with all of our soul.

This is aimed right at you and me. The latter days, the time of the end, the tribulation, the Day of the Lord—all of which seem to be not that far away.

What abiding faithfulness is expressed here! God knew, even in the land, they were going to turn aside from Him from time to time, and at some point in their future their departure from Him was going to hit a climax of such proportion that He would scatter them among the nations. It is about to happen again.

This is directed, at least up to that point, at the citizens of the United States and Britain, and so forth. But when He put that in about the latter days, the latter times, it brought it right down to our day, and it can be taken personally for you and me, because we do not know how much tribulation we are going to have to go through along with our fellow citizens in our respective nations.

So, when the World Trade Center gets blown up, it is already impacting on you and me. It does not matter that we are Christian. We are going to suffer right along with those who are part and parcel of this nation and are not part of the Kingdom of God. A great deal of that is going to touch on you and me, and it is going to prove to be a difficult thing for some of us to handle. Some of us are going to crack under the stress that it creates.

But always remember this—Deuteronomy says that God is faithful and if we will turn to Him, even though we have sinned and even though we have become a prodigal son, He will hold the door open for you and me to come back to Him, no matter how far, it seems, we have drifted from Him. He will hold the door open because He is faithful to His promise.

When we take these things into account, this prophecy here, it becomes clear that our survival on our pilgrimage to the Kingdom of God, like Israel's survival in the wilderness, depends not on our ability to keep the covenant, but on God's willingness to sustain us through His forgiving grace and unwavering commitment to His promise to Abraham.

Deuteronomy 4:24-31

God is teaching us there what defragments our mind. It is seeking Him with passionate desire to be like Him which defragments our mind and makes it one with Him.