[Today: Numbers 14] Avoiding the Wilderness Trip! In this chapter, the people respond to the ten spies who brought back the evil report. The voice of reason and rationale often provoke us to react to problems in fear and doubt. The ten spies' evil report could have been motivated out of healthy caution and sensibility, but the result was 40 years of disappointment and death. The people are poised on the threshold of a tremendous breakthrough, but they listened to the wrong counsel. The Bible does say there is wisdom in a multitude of counselors, but when the multitude of counsel is speaking out of unbelief, the consensus of popular opinion will only lead to frustration.
