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. 31 But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected. 32 But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. 33 And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness.
The spies from Israel had forty days to check out the promised land and bring bag a challenge to enter it. The majority (ten) failed to do so, and the people failed to listen to the two that did. The grumbling under their breath was deafening in the ears of God. The result was that their generation would never see the land and the consequence was a life of aimless wandering, living only to give the next generation their opportunity to dwell there. How much of our lives are wasted by our fears, our faithlessness, our grumbling?
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