by Audrey Wauson
Numbers 13 The LORD now said to Moses, "Send out men to explore the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the Israelites. Send one leader from each of the twelve ancestral tribes." This was their report to Moses: "We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country—a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces.
But … There always seems to be a “but” when we want to complain, gripe, or whine. They told the truth about the promised land, briefly describing the benefits, BUT… they spent twice the time describing the things that worried them.
Numbers 13:30 …Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. "Let's go at once to take the land," he said. "We can certainly conquer it!" Caleb saw the benefits and wanted to focus their attention on “whatever is good, whatever is right, whatever is of a good report” (Philippians 4:8) BUT… is very difficult to quell a negative rise. Negativity is SO contagious. The rest of the chapter is their negative encouragement to each other, their egging each other on by worse and worse predictions.
What “But’s” are keeping you from living a victorious, full-of-joy, Christian life?
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