Weekly Memory Verse:
Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who diligently search for him.
Hebrews 11:6 (ISV)
Meditation Thought:
The majority of people around me are not willing to take these risks. How will I respond?
Today's Reading - Numbers 13:25 - 14:4 (NASB) Choose another translation
When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days, they proceeded to come to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land. Thus they told him, and said, "We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. "Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. "Amalek is living in the land of the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan."
Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it." But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us." So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size. "There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."
Then all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, "Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness! "Why is the LORD bringing us into this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will become plunder; would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?" So they said to one another, "Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt."
(Today's reading came from the New American Standard Bible)
3 comments:
I must press on towards my Saviour. He must become greater, I must become less. I'll pray for the others. Like the song says “Somebody's praying you through.”
Caleb was Mr. Positive and had faith they could overcome the the people, while the others decided to continue grumbling and not trust that this was the promised land. How often do we grumble about something God has put before us rather than trusting that He has his reasons, and it could mean there is something wonderful ahead?
Going up against an army of Nephilim would be a mighty battle. I'd be afraid. Then I'd pray against fear and do what the Lord told me to do to win the battle. I have no doubt that the Lord's army will prevail in all circumstances because the greatest battle is already won.
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