. Many saw God’s great miracles in The Exodus. Despite that, the cowardly refused to obey Him.
Today’s Reading from The Old Testament includes Nm 13:1-2, 25–14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35. We learn that God despises cowards!
The Tribes were wandering in the desert of Paran. “The LORD said to Moses ‘Send men to reconnoiter the land of Canaan, which I am giving the children of Israel. You shall send one man from each ancestral tribe, all of them princes.'”
After forty days of inspecting The Promised Land, the 12 “princes” returned. They reported:
“We went into the land to which you sent us. It does indeed flow with milk and honey, . . . However, the people who are living in the land are fierce, and the towns are fortified and very strong.”
They continued to justify their cowardice!
“Besides, we saw descendants of the Anakim there. Amalekites live in the region of the Negeb; Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites dwell in the highlands, and Canaanites along the seacoast and the banks of the Jordan.”
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One of the 12 was Caleb. He was not a coward! “We ought to go up and seize the land, for we can certainly do so.”
11 were cowards! “We cannot attack these people; they are too strong for us.”
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Question 1: “What do cowardly people always do?”
Answer: “So they spread discouraging reports among the children of Israel about the land they had scouted, saying, ‘The land that we explored is a country that consumes its inhabitants. And all the people we saw there are huge, veritable giants (the Anakim were a race of giants); we felt like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them.”
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Question 2: “Would the people follow Caleb, or the cowards?
Answer: “. . the whole community broke out with loud cries, and even in the night the people wailed.” It was like watching or reading the news, today!
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Question 3: “What punishment did God promise and provide?”
“Forty days you spent in scouting the land; forty years shall you suffer for your crimes: one year for each day. Thus you will realize what it means to oppose Me. I, the LORD, have sworn to do this to all this wicked assembly that conspired against Me: here in the desert they shall die to the last man.”
Answer: “The God of Faith, Freedom, and Families sentenced the cowards to death in the desert, ‘to the last man’“.
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Catholics pray! “May we be blessed with the Courage to obey Every Teaching that God left us through His Son.”
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