38 Year Trip

June 30, 2007

Why does it seem that it takes such a long time to get our answers met by God? Why does it seem that others seem to get them right away. Is there something wrong with those who do not get their answers quickly? What are the ones who get answers doing right?

Deu 2:14 Complete Apostles' Bible
(14) And the days in which we traveled from Kadesh Barnea, till we crossed the valley of Zered, were thirty-eight years, until the whole generation of the men of war failed, dying out of the camp, as the Lord God swore to them.

Our verse today is part of the history lesson that Moses is giving to the children of Israel. He is letting them know that for 38 years they traveled in the wilderness. Why did they have to do that. God had to remove all the people who had spoken their unbelief into the situation. The ones that were getting ready to go into the promise land were not the ones that left Egypt, they were their children. These people had no real reference point as to what living in Egypt was like. But their parents did.

Are we not like those people. We have our reference point, the way the world was before we became Christians. And now as children of God with a citizenship in heaven, we have to focus on the way God wants us to do it. Much of what we have to go through probably is the removal of the equivalent of the people who left Egypt. Until we can get Egypt out of our system we cannot cross over into what God wants us to do.

So, do you need to take another trip around Mount Sinai till you learn your lesson?

--Translation Information
The Apostles' Bible
A Modern English Translation of the Greek Septuagint
Translated by Sir Lancelot C.L. Brenton
Revised and Edited by Paul W. Esposito, and,
The English Majority Text Version (EMTV) of the Holy Bible, New Testament.
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