Numbers 14:21-23 (ESV)

Originally published 08/26/2015

This is the worst of tragedies. God wants to give his people the land of promise, and they want the land, but they will not get it. God said: "But truly, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD, none of the men who have seen my glory and my signs that I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and yet have put me to the test these ten times and have not obeyed my voice, shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it" Numbers 14:21-23 (ESV).  Lord, expose to me any blindness that I have in my life that keeps me from recognizing the disobedience that does not allow you to fulfill the promises that you have made to your followers. Desiring to please you is not enough. I want to please in every way in every part of my life.