Numbers 13:1-15:41
Joshua 2:1-24
Hebrews 3:7-19
There is something wrong with the human mind that we can witness God’s miracles one day and doubt him the next. Our faulty memory fills in the gaps with naturalistic explanations, with gloss and fuzz so that tragedy looms large, but promises fulfilled and prayers answered fade into obscurity.
With the pillar of fire and cloud right there in the camp, the manna appearing every morning, the plague graves still fresh, the Israelites doubted God’s power to bring them into the Promised Land. When they heard God’s judgment of their lapse, they compounded their lack of faith with disobedience. The end of fear–as it always is–was death.
Every one of us lives this same pattern of fear and forgetfulness. It is inherent in the fallen human condition. As a partial remedy, God gave us reminders of his actions, promises, and commands: the feast days, sacrifices, tzitziyot, etc. When we wonder what is the point of those things today, we have only to look in the mirror.
Tags: doubt, faith, fear, miracles, Sh'lah, Sh’lah L’kh, Shelach, Shlach, Shlach Lecha, spies, tassles, tzitzit
Man, I know it. I’ve lived a life with a lot of sudden, unexpected provision and even healing but its hard to remember of all I was through next time I get in a pinch. I’m in a pinch time now, and God will see my family through, this is a good reminder.
This is a big part of what faith is about eh?
Oh we of little faith.
Romans 5:1-5 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. (2) Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. (3) More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, (4) and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, (5) and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
From this morning’s teaching at my Sunday church: Faith comes through the experience that comes out of the successful resolution of life’s trials. Knowledge, wisdom, and a seed of faith preserve us through those trials. With each trial we overcome, our knowledge, wisdom, and faith grow, preparing us for the next fight, which will carry us even higher if we persevere and allow God to work through it.
“Faith comes through the experience that comes out of the successful resolution of life’s trials. ”
Thats quite quotable, thanks.