Deuteronomy 32:28-29

In Deuteronomy 32:28, we are right in the song of Moses. Now look at God's indictment here about Israel.

What is he telling us? They always reacted, not according to the counsel of God, not according to right understanding. They fell back on their Egyptian trained hearts. They did not consider the outworking of faith. So Israel was a nation driven by bondage to time, driven by their fears but deceived in to thinking that they knew better than God and His servant Moses. Their whole thinking process had to undergo a conversion. They had to learn to be free!

All their lifetime, up to that point, they were subject to bondage. Somebody else was doing their thinking for them, telling them in the types, when and where to sleep, when and where to work, when and where to eat, maybe even telling them when they can go to the bathroom, and all the while filling their minds with negative, God-rejecting attitudes.

The author of these attitudes that turns us in on ourselves is Satan, but we willingly reinforce and internalize his ways into our mind to such an extent that we think they are ours. He imprints on us almost from the day that we are born, and he programs us to believe his lies.

Again, did you notice what God said—"that they would consider their latter end"? Faith considers the end; the outworking of what one is going to do. Their excessive concern about time and the fears that they would not be provided for express themselves in their lack of trust. They lived for the moment, and I guess I might say that "deferred gratification" was not in their dictionary.