The Purpose of Divine Direction

On the edge of the Promised Land, Moses reviewed for the children of Israel the blessing of God upon them during the years of their wandering in the wilderness. He pointed to the fact that their clothes had been sustained and that they had been fed with manna and given water from the rock of flint. But Moses was using his review to warn them of the dangers of forgetting their history. He saw the real peril that when they had become settled in the land, they would quickly forget the God Who had brought them there. He was emphasizing for them that all the trials through which they had passed had been designed by the Lord for their good.