Deuteronomy 23: Oh, Those Consequences!

Many times in every person’s life there are consequences that are not a result of the person’s sin or wrong-doing. But they are consequences anyway, and they need to be dealt with honorably. Some of those situations—extreme ones, I might say—are given in this chapter. God pronounced the consequences (without necessarily implying any guilt). One valuable element of these situations is the lesson of humble dependence on God that can be learned.