...they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes so large that it took two of them to carry it on a pole between them! ...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 the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified... Numbers 13:23, 27-28NLT There was goodness, fruit, life, thriving in their future. But there was also trouble, difficulties, challenges... Ten of the 12 lost sight of God's call and direction, and of the goodness ahead. Their view of the difficulties seemed too great. They forgot who was with them and where He was leading them and let the (fear of) what was ahead overwhelm them. It was safer to stay where they were. I'm like that sometimes. I get stuck. Lose sight of what God has for me. Lose sight of the fruit, the goodness. The problems loom as insurmountable and overwhelming. I forget who is wi...
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