May 20, 2011 – Numbers 13

Here we see the lack of faith in God giving the land to the Israelites.  Just think, if they had just gone in and taken the land, they would not have had to spend the 40 years in the desert.  I thought that Caleb and Joshua both said that they could win, but here it only says Caleb.  We see a similar idea of the leaders going into the crowds to spread seeds of descent against Moses, much like they have in other cases when they did not like what Moses was doing.  It is hard to get a sense of what the people themselves were thinking because they were always being pushed around by the leaders.  Makes you think what people will think about us when they look back.  Will the attitudes and feelings of normal everyday people count for anything or will they only look at or leaders or celebrities, they won’t get a very good picture of what we are like.  Looking around at our leaders and celebrities, it actually is a pretty dim picture of the world.