We hear from the twelve spies who returned to report on the Promised land. Two of them had good reports but the rest did not. They reported, Numbers 13:27-28;31-33 (NIV) They gave Moses this account: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there.” …. But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
They were focusing on what they saw, not what God had said. We need to focus on what God says, not what we see.
Deuteronomy 6:23 (AMP) He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to [give] our fathers.
The spies reported that the people in the land were too strong, and they feared they could not penetrate the walls. But at the centre of the matter, there was only one thing that would keep them from taking their promised land. It wasn’t the giants in their way or the walls keeping them out.
It was their own unbelief.
Hebrews 3:19 (AMP) “So we see that they were not able to enter [into His rest—the promised land] because of unbelief and an unwillingness to trust in God.”
We need to believe the Word of God.
Joshua 21:45 (TLB) Every good thing the Lord had promised them came true.
God keeps His Word. Not one of God’s good promises has ever failed, not before the time of Joshua, not after, and not now.
In Isaiah 55:10-11 the NTL says: “The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry. It is the same with my word. I send it out, and it always produces fruit. It will accomplish all I want it to, and it will prosper everywhere I send it.”
God brought us out to bring us in a promised land flowing with milk and honey. God did not bring you out to stay in the wilderness. God brought you out to bring you in.