Our relationship with Jesus Christ is a one to one direct correlation with our faith in God and His word!!! We see this in the life of Joshua, when the people chose to tell Moses to go up on the mount himself and bring the words of God back to them and they would be obedient, we see that Joshua wanted to sit at the tent of God for himself even after Moses left. Joshua was seeking a relationship for himself. This is then shown in the Faith Joshua had as the twelve scouts went out to seek the land of milk and honey. There were Giants in the land but Joshua had his faith in a Living God. Just like David, Joshua knew that his God was much greater than the giants that would be in opposition to him. How many of us are facing giants in our lives, are we trusting God as Joshua and David to give us the victory over those Giants. Is our personal relationship building an unyielding Faith in the most High God??? If we want to share in the same testimonies of previous saints we are going to have to face some giants in our life. All of this will bring glory to our Father and continue to bring salt and light to a decaying world. If we are afraid to face the giants and there are no victories what would the world place their hope in??? Let’s run the race loving our first love and give this world a Lover that will never leave them or forsake them!!! Be Encouraged!!! Have a wonderful life of Loving your First Love on purpose!!!!!
Numbers 14
The People Rebel
1 That night all the members of the community raised their voices and wept aloud. 2 All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole assembly said to them, “If only we had died in Egypt! Or in this wilderness! 3 Why is the LORD bringing us to this land only to let us fall by the sword? Our wives and children will be taken as plunder. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go back to Egypt?” 4 And they said to each other, “We should choose a leader and go back to Egypt.”
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell face down in front of the whole Israelite assembly gathered there. 6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes 7 and said to the entire Israelite assembly, “The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good. 8 If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us. 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will devour them. Their protection is gone, but the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them.”
10 But the whole assembly talked about stoning them. Then the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the Israelites. 11 The LORD said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in me, in spite of all the signs I have performed among them? 12 I will strike them down with a plague and destroy them, but I will make you into a nation greater and stronger than they.”
13 Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear about it! By your power you brought these people up from among them. 14 And they will tell the inhabitants of this land about it. They have already heard that you, LORD, are with these people and that you, LORD, have been seen face to face, that your cloud stays over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. 15 If you put all these people to death, leaving none alive, the nations who have heard this report about you will say, 16 ‘The LORD was not able to bring these people into the land he promised them on oath, so he slaughtered them in the wilderness.’
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