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 PSALM 106:24 "Then they despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise."

The people of God, those He had delivered from over 400 years of slavery in Egypt, despised the land God had given to them as their inheritance as He had promised Abraham. Why is the world would they refuse to enter in?

It was then and it is the same even now...when God's people refuse to believe His promises, they balk at obeying God in the very things that ALONE make for life. He promised to drive out the utterly corrupted pagan nations and to establish Israel in the land that would be named after them. They doubted than God could lay out a banquet in the wilderness and provide for them in ways that would be new to them. They were to learn to trust and obey and to see the salvation of God.

They grumbled and wouldn't obey because they trusted MORE in what they could perceive with their own finite understanding than what God had plainly laid out before them. 

They saw the pagan nations to be too strong, beyond their own ability to conquer. They did not believe God, Himself, would give them victory over the godlessness of the pagan nations in the Promised Land. They forgot what God had done, proving Himself to be infinitely more able to do all that His people needed in Egypt.

God had proved Himself faithful to His Word of promise to Abraham and now to the whole nation of Israel. God had proved His faithfulness in their deliverance, and yet they forgot, trusting in their own insight rather than the almighty power of God committed to them.

We are delivered by God in Christ Jesus to live in the promises of God. Do not forget! Trust Him, always.

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