Deuteronomy 1:19-33
Then all of you came to me and said, “Let us send men ahead to spy out the land for us and bring back a report about the route we are to take and the towns we will come to.
The idea seemed good to me; so I selected twelve of you, one man from each tribe. They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshkol and explored it. Taking with them some of the fruit of the land, they brought it down to us and reported, “It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.“
But you were unwilling to go up; you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. You grumbled in your tents and said, “The Lord hates us; so he brought us out of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us. Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt in fear. They say, ‘The people are stronger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the sky. We even saw the Anakites there.
In spite of this, you did not trust in the Lord your God, who went ahead of you on your journey, in fire by night and in a cloud by day, to search out places for you to camp and to show you the way you should go.
Why?
This event caused Israelites to stay in the dreadful wilderness for 40 years until their men all died, except two men.
Moses reminded the Israelites of the event of the 12 spies, for they saw the town high and the people strong, but they forgot the Lord Almighty has done for them. People are easily lost in what we see, but God is unseen and lost faith.
What we see is not the truth, but what we unseen is more important.
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申命記著重反省，不在指責！你們不肯上去，雖然這些人當時可能尚未出生！即他們的上一代。摩西強調的是整個以色列人的責任，他們是別有用心，把責任怪在神身上，是因為神恨我們，故意把我們交給亞摩利人。神要他們得勝，得榮耀，他們卻發怨言，走不出去。扭曲神的心意！人犯罪後，很容易怪罪在別人身上。
神在我們每天走的路上已經在前面為我們安排好了。
基督徒的危機，是認為神不管我，不在意我，不會為我找安營之所，我們人生每個階段。人的危機不是眼前的困難而是人懷疑神會保守，懷疑神的動機，認為別有用心。不知道神為我們預備，而是人常常不要神來管！求神讓我們看見神的作為！
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How?
God's word never fails and we trust in the Lord for God loves us!
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