I am using the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.

Today, I am reading and commenting on Numbers 14-15.

I did not touch on the scouts who went into the Promised Land in yesterday’s passage. Two of the scouts, Joshua and Caleb, focused on the riches and goodness of the land. The other ten focused on the problems that the people would face in trying to take the land. One can easily learn the wrong lesson here. The fault of the ten was NOT that they saw difficulties. The problem was that they saw, and reported on, these difficulties as being insurmountable. They focused on why the people of Israel would not be able to possess the land. The people responded to their discouraging report and refused to listen to Caleb and Joshua. The same people who witnessed God’s action to obtain their exodus from Egypt, who had seen God part the Red Sea, were unwilling to trust that He would overcome these obstacles. How often do we do the same thing? Despite the miracles which God has worked in our lives in the past, we often fail to put our faith in Him going forward. It is OK to see the obstacles in the path to following God’s will, but we must not let those obstacles discourage us.