More to the Story, Chapter 6

BUT I CAN'T

"Caleb . . . stood before Moses. “Let’s take the land,” he said. “We can conquer it!”  But the others said . . “We can’t. . .the inhabitants are too strong . . . We even saw giants there, all the people we saw were huge. Next to them we felt like grasshoppers in their sight ”     Numbers 13:30-33

Sometimes it is impossible to see how something good can arise from the facts before you. Israel had come to the edge of the Promised Land. God told them to enter, do battle and win. But the facts on the ground told them it was impossible. Caleb and Joshua said, “we can”. The other 10 spies said “we can’t.”  

Outvoted, the Hebrew nation wandered in the Sinai for 40 years. An entire generation died without experiencing God’s promise. Why? They didn’t trust God and therefore they didn’t obey God.  

And it cost their entire families. Because  the parents didn’t trust God the children lost out.  

Prayer
 
“Lord, I now realize that my choices about following or not following you affect more people than just me. Help me today to obey you, follow you, respond to your gentle nudges, regardless of the inadequacy I feel. I know now that others are relying on my response to you. Amen”

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