July 9, 2008

• I hope everyone is doing well. I’ve fallen behind in posting and in responding. I’m using every free moment to pack and go through things. I’m making some headway. My son and his wife and three children are also staying with us temporarily while he looks for work. My daughter in love is expecting in August. Lots of cooking, cleaning and swimming going on these days. I think it was 110 degrees in our neck of the woods yesterday. I stayed up after my husband left for work at 3:30 so that I could do my devotions and then get outside as soon as the sun comes up to do the lawn work. I melt in the heat.  

  
  

  Oh, and we put an offer on a house yesterday and hope to hear back today. So far the escrow on our home is moving forward. I’m praying that God’s power will see it through this time. Please keep us in your prayers.

  
  

  Blessings to all!

  
  

   

  
  

  Nancy DeMoss: We’ve been on a journey with the Children of Israel, going through the wilderness. We’ve seen their tendency to murmur and complain and whine when they find themselves in difficult circumstances and situations. We saw that in the early days after they came out of Egypt, in those first two months, the first four times they complained, God responded by performing a miracle, meeting their needs. He showed them mercy and grace.

  
  

  But in our last session we saw that once they had learned who God was and how good God was and His ability to provide–then when they persisted in their murmuring, God said, “I’ve got a different response.” God began to judge them. We see that God takes this sin very seriously because it’s a sin that expresses doubt in the goodness of God.

  
  

  When we left the Israelites they were at Kadesh-barnea, it was the time when they should have been going into the Promised Land. But when the spies came back, ten of them said, “This is hard. We will not be able to win against the giants in the land.” The people murmured against Moses and Aaron; they said, “We wish we had died in Egypt. We just want to die in this wilderness. Why have you brought us out here?” They murmured, and God said, “You want to die? I’ll let you die. In fact, you’re all going to die in this wilderness.”

  
  

  What should have been an 11-day journey into the Promised Land became a 38-year trek–round and round in the wilderness, wandering in circles, until that entire generation age 20 and older had died off. They went around the Promised Land, but they were never able to enter into it–a whole generation that never entered into the Promised Land. Why? Because of a root sin of discontentment. Discontentment–discontented with God. He was not enough. His presence was not enough. His provision was not enough. They were not satisfied with His plan. We see in the Children of Israel a murmuring heart–the sin of discontentment–and the serious consequences that it brings.

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