Day 213 - Numbers 13

By: Norman W. Berry

Narrator: Chris Genthree

• 1 min. read • grade level: 6

V.1-2 In Deuteronomy 1:21-22²¹Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged. ²²And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come. (Deuteronomy 1:21‑22) we see that this wish to search the land was started by the children of Israel. God had brought them out of Egypt and promised to bring them into the good land, and told them what it was like. Why then would they need spies? Unbelief!

V.23-27 They soon found that the land was just as God had told them. It was a land that flowed with milk and honey, and they brought back with them some of the fruits of the land. The people both heard the report and saw the fruit, the evidence, yet they did not believe.

V.31 They tell the people “we are not able.” Their eyes were turned away from the Lord, and they felt like grasshoppers in front of giants.

V.30 But a man named Caleb says “we are well able.” Caleb had his eye on the Lord. There are many enemies that would try to hinder us today from enjoying, right now, our wonderful privileges and blessings as heavenly people. We are “blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Eph. 1:3³Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: (Ephesians 1:3)). We don’t get our blessings by obedience to God’s Word, but we enjoy them by obedience.

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