Deuteronomy 1:26 “Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. 27 And you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
By the end of the book of Numbers, we had seen enough names and lists to make the head spin as God gave instructions for entering the promised land. Now it is time to enter. But before doing so, God has the people take one big glance backwards to see their complaining and disobedience. God did not give them all of these struggles and roadblocks because He hated them. They brought them upon themselves by not trusting Him and obeying His commands. It was now time for them to learn from these experiences and leave their complaining and disobedience behind. How often do we wrongly view our struggles as God being against us and doubting His love for us? How much more are they because of our disobeying and failing to trust Him?
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