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Lack of Faith is Costly

by Greg Miller  
10/09/2015 / Devotionals






By Greg Miller 2015



Moses sent 12 spies into Canaan.



Forty days later, the spies returned with their reports. Numbers chapter 13: "And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

"And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

"Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

"The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

"And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

"But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

"And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.

"And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."

The 10 spies who brought back an evil report were all singing the same tune. "The fruit was big and so heavy to carry," they sang. "The inhabitants of the land were big, too. Yes, too big! Those guys were so big we looked like grasshoppers to them, and we even looked like grasshoppers to ourselves."



Caleb silenced the crowd and said, "Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it."



The people cried all night because of the report of the 10 spies. "Let's go back to Egypt!" they wailed.



Because of their complaining and lack of faith, God proclaimed that all the moaners from age 20 and up would die in the wilderness and not enter the Land of Promise.



"It's not fair!" Moaner Number One silently griped.



"Thank you, Lord, for your favor," Caleb and Joshua both prayed. "If only the people would have believed in your ability instead of their own inabilityWill we ever learn to trust in you?"

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By Greg Miller 2018

Greg is retired from the Elizabethton STAR Newspaper, after working there for almost 23 years. He now freelances for the paper. Contact email address is [email protected], also facebook.com/kidcool4jesus. Available for speaking engagements/other ministries. Jesus is Lord

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