The Lord Spoke: The Complaint Department Responds

 Numbers 14:26 And the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, 27 “How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me. 28 Say to them, ‘As I live, declares the Lord, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you: 29 your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness, and of all your number, listed in the census from twenty years old and upward, who have grumbled against me, 30 not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. 

God had proved over and over again that He would provide, protect, and lead His people into the promised land.  As we saw yesterday, when the time came, they resisted. They complained that God had led them into the wilderness only to die there.  So God granted their request: He let them die there- not because that was His plan, but because they rejected His plan.  It is okay with us to "wrestle with God", to cry out complaints and wrestle to understand His ways. But this is an attack on His character and a blatant refusal to trust Him. Be careful what you accuse God of; it just may come true.