Seeing ourselves in the mirror of others experiences

There are often debates on whether Christians even need to read the Old Testament, since the New Testament applies to us.

I was reading some commentary and loved this thought. “As we read the Old Testament, and the tragic events in Israel’s history, we must see ourselves in the mirror of their experiences”. I love that.

God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. His character and end plan has not waivered. So often there are circles or cycles where Gods people serve Him and then they loose focus and serve other Gods: self, material, a person, a job, hatred, jealousy……………

God loves his children so much He lures them back with his love. Many times we return back because of our bad choices; when we find ourselves in a place where we cant fix it or we are “at our bottom”. We can learn from the patterns and behavior of others. We can see history repeat itself and prophecy play itself out.
 
 “As we read the Old Testament, and the tragic events in Israel’s history, we must see ourselves in the mirror of their experiences”.