Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations.
Here’s something that I have learned, success will sometimes erases memory.
Text: Deuteronomy 32
Theme: Remembering God in seasons of blessing
Let set the scene. Why a Song?
Deuteronomy 32 is not just poetry, it’s a spiritual safeguard.
Moses is at the end of his life. Israel is at the edge of the Promised Land. They are finally about to enjoy what they didn’t build. They are about to harvest what they didn’t plant, and certainly, they are about live where they didn’t labor.
So Moses doesn’t give them a strategy.
He gives them a song.
Why a song? Because songs stick when sermons fade.
Pastor give me some Word to help back your claim. Deut. 31:19.
Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel, that this song may be a witness for Me.
This song is meant to follow them. Follow them into blessings, follow them into prosperity, and follow them into a generations Moses will never see.
You see there are some hidden dangers in forgetting where you came from and what and who brought you. The hidden danger is forgetting after freedom.
God already knows what Israel does not yet realize:
Because success can erase your memory.
Notice that Moses warns them not about failure, but he warned them about comfort.
In Deuteronomy 32:15, Moses says: Jeshurun grew fat and kicked, then he forsook God who made him.
Jeshurun is a poetic name for Israel, meaning upright one.
But notice the progression:
They prospered.
They grew comfortable.
They stopped remembering and they drifted from God.
This teaches us something vital: Faith rarely collapses in crisis. It collapses in ease.
The reason a lot of relationships fail is because people forget. And the they become comfortable and complacent.
They forget about why they came together.
They forget about why they love each other.
They take the marriages and the relationships for granted.
They forget about why the last person left them or why they left the last person and they become complacent
For them here forgetting is not a memory problem, it’s a Worship Problem.
When Moses says Israel will forget God, he’s not talking about losing information.
They still knew the stories.
They still knew the laws.
They still knew the rituals.
But they forgot who did what.
Deuteronomy 32:18 says: You forgot the Rock who begot you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
To forget God in Scripture means:
To stop honoring Him as the source and to start crediting yourself.
Then people begin to replace dependence with pride. This is why Moses keeps calling God the Rock.
A rock doesn’t move.
A rock doesn’t change.
A rock was there before you arrived.
Israel didn’t lose God. They stopped leaning on Him.
Why does history matters to faith.
Moses constantly points backward he says:
Remember the wilderness.
Remember the deliverance.
Remember the discipline. Remember the miracles.
Because faith is sustained by memory.
When we forget, where God has brought us from, what He spared us from, and who stood by you when nobody else did. Our worship becomes shallow, and our obedience becomes optional.
That’s why Moses says in Deuteronomy 32:7, Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations.
Memory is not nostalgia, it’s spiritual grounding.
Let’s look at the pattern Moses exposes.
This song lays out a repeating cycle:
God chooses and blesses His people.
The people prosper.
Prosperity produces pride.
Pride leads to forgetting. Forgetting leads to rebellion. Rebellion brings consequences.
But God, in mercy, restores.
Moses is saying: Don’t wait to learn this the hard way. Learn it while the way is easy.
Here is a teachable application for today.
This chapter forces a hard question for believers:
What do you forget when life gets good? When prayers get answered. When money is stabilized. When the crisis is over, and when the pressure is lifted.
Do we still:
Pray the same?
Trust the same?
Worship the same and depend on God the same?
Or has the comfort quietly replaced conviction?
Why Moses Ends with Hope
Even after all the warnings, the song doesn’t end in despair.
Deuteronomy 32:36 says: For the LORD will vindicate His people and have compassion on His servants.
God knows they will forget, and still, He commits to restoring them.
This reveals something powerful: God’s faithfulness is stronger than human forgetfulness.
But Moses’ message remains clear. You don’t have to repeat the cycle if you learn from the song.
Closing point.
Moses’ final gift isn’t land, leadership, or law. It’s memory.
Because when God’s people remember. Worship stays pure. When God’s people remember, gratitude stays alive. When God‘s people remember, faith stays anchored.
But when memory fades, even the promised land can become dangerous.
So, Deuteronomy 32 is Moses’ final song to Israel just before his death. The people are on the edge of promise, but God knows something dangerous: success can erase memory.
Moses warns them that faith collapses when history is forgotten.
Faith is not only built forward, but it’s built backward.
When Israel forgot who delivered them. Who fed them, and who fought for them. Their faith weakened.
Before God builds anything new, He says, remember.
We cannot build strong faith while erasing testimony.
Because forgetting what God has done weakens confidence in what He will do.
But Faith is reinforced by memory.
You all know that I love stories and I am reminded of a story about an elderly woman with memory loss that was still able to recited scriptures that she had learned as a child. Though her mind faded, her faith stood.
And someone asked her one day how is it that you can remember scriptures, but can’t remember what happened yesterday. The old lady simply replied yesterday’s gone, but the word of God is still standing.
Here it is. Faith built on remembrance survives forgetfulness.
And we need to remember, he died one Friday Rose on a Sunday morning and declare all power is in his hands.
We need to remember that he gave his life that we might have life in debt more abundantly.
We need to remember he woke us up this morning and started us on our way.
We need to remember. He’s still food on the table.
We need to remember, he’s still a way out of no way is there anybody that remember this evening?
Is there anybody that remembers?
