Reading:
Numbers 14:9 – 14:12

That’s the title of our next Sunday School lesson (August 9, 2009). The following verse fragments caught my attention in my reading this morning:

“We are well able to overcome it” ().

“We were in our own sight” ().

“And wherefore hath the LORD brought us unto this land?” ().

“Let us return into Egypt” ().

“If the LORD delight in us” ().

I’ve got to do better at rejecting faithless negativity and at embracing faithful, faith-driven positivity. (Did I just coin a new word?!)

[The Scriptures say in Numbers 14:9 -- Only rebel not...neither fear]
from Numbers 14:9

Reading:
Deuteronomy 31:1-8

Moses had been on a mission for God for some forty years.

Now the time had come for Joshua to assume that Moses’ task of leading the children of Israel.

To put it another way, Joshua was being commissioned for a new mission.

Jehova, ever so sensitive and gracious toward the needs of His flock, had Moses deliver a message to Joshua:

“And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed” (8).

Lord, I need that message, too!

[The Scriptures say in Deuteronomy 31:3 -- The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee]
from Deuteronomy 31:3