Numbers 13:23-27 (ESV)

Originally published 08/15/2015

God had promised his people a land "flowing with milk and honey." When Israel arrived, they sent 12 leaders into the land to see if it was what was promised. "And they came to the valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they brought some pomegranates and figs. That place was called the valley of Eshcol because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there. At the end of 40 days they returned from spying out the land. And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. And they told him. 'We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit'" Numbers 13:23-27 (ESV). What God told them was real and true. Lord, give me the faith in you to live by your promises even when they seem impossible, dangerous, and contrary to human wisdom.