Parents will be able to find out what their unborn children are likely to look like, and whether they will have any abnormalities. Then parents will be able to decide whether to end the pregnancy or take a chance on having a child that's less than perfect. Now that we can see it from here, I'm not so sure we should be going there. Perhaps this story is about limits - about living with the consequences of bad decisions and plain old bad luck. Everybody couldn't get to the Promised Land.
Faith is more than reaching the goal.
It's living each day trusting in the presence of God. No, it's more than that. It's living with our failures in the presence of God. But as preacher, I sit across from the Moses window . . . Surrounding a stark, towering Moses are scenes from his life - Moses raised by royalty, Moses defending the oppressed, Moses the liberator, the lawgiver, Moses the leader of Israel out of bondage into the Promised Land.