A New Impasse

Reading:   Numbers 13

Moses sent forth a scouting party to determine the best route of travel and the reports were frightening for all that heard them...

NUMBERS 13:32-33

32    And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. 

33    And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. 

"Aaaa! We haven't a chance - the inhabitants of the land are giants and we are but grasshoppers in their eyes...we will surely die!"  Uh oh, sounds like we are in for another round of murmuring amongst the Israelites.  I truly am in awe at their ridiculous ignorance.  Seriously, how many miracles have these people seen?  How many perilous, no chance, situations have these people been up against and yet survived by the obvious hand of God?  Again and again, round and round we go...

Was there ever a point, do you think, that Moses was fed up, shook his head in disgusted disbelief, and for the faintest of moments thought, "I'm done, take them Lord - I need some rest!"

Probably not, which is why he was chosen for the role, right - bless him!

~Kipling