Blog From Matthew

Numbers 14:1-15:16
Mark 14:53-72

Psalm 53:1-6

Proverbs 11:4

Numbers 14:2-4

And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had
died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword,
that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?"  So they said to one another,
"Let us select a leader and return to Egypt."

The Israelites had been journeying through the wilderness. They left Egypt, where they were once slaves. On their way to the 
land that God promised them, some of them expressed a desire to return.

As Christians, particularly Christians who weren't always living right, it can be tempting to think about our old way of life. When
life gets hard, we find ourselves looking for some sort of comfort. With all the things we are supposed to keep away from, we may
even find ourselves upset that we have departed from a life of sin.

We have to keep in mind the promised land; victory in Jesus's name!

Egypt couldn't offer the Israelites what God's promised land could offer them. Our former lives can't give us what Jesus can.

Numbers 14:24

But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went,
and his descendants shall inherit it.

God said Caleb had a different spirit in him than the people who were complaining. 

2 Timothy 1:7 tells us "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."