"Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein; And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;" Deuteronomy 8:11-14
For most of our days of deputation, my family has been homeless. Though I haven't wandered around in the wilderness for forty years as the Israelite did, I can understand their desire for a place of their own to settle in. Yet their wilderness experience was supposed to bring them closer to God so they might understand their total dependence on Him. He warned them in Deuteronomy not to forget who He was when they prospered in the new land. When all was going well, when they had land, houses, animals, silver and gold is when they were at the greatest risk of forgetting all God had done for them.
When we arrived in Hungary, my family had the opportunity to stay in a large beautifully decorated home with plenty of space for us and our three children. We even had enough space to add two puppies to the home! Though the house belonged to someone else (another missionary who was in the states while his wife was facing cancer), I grew quite comfortable and started to grow accustomed to life there. Perhaps this is why we find ourselves homeless once again. We have been traveling the states since March and have no home of our own to return to in Hungary. God wants to bring me the place where I rely on Him to take care of my family. Sometimes we need to go through wilderness experiences to bring us back to the point of total dependence on Him lest in our prosperity, we forget.
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