God Keeps His Word

The people of Israel came out of Egypt just as God had said they would around 1300 BC after 400 years as slaves just as God had had told Abraham around 2100 BC. When God finally brought them to the land He had promised to Abraham, they found it to be a land "flowing with milk and honey" just as God said.

But the people were so used to complaining and being contrary by this time that they refused to believe God and refused to go up to possess the land. Only Caleb and Joshua were champions for God in this endeavor. So God sent the people back into the wilderness to let that generation die out. He had Moses take a census before all this happened and again after 40 years in the wilderness. No one was left of the first census except Caleb and Joshua.

Because Moses was angry with the people and struck a rock to bring out water when God had told him to speak to the rock, Moses and Aaron were denied entrance into the promised land, just as God said. 

From the very beginning of history, God has been proven to be One who keeps His word. That should be a clarion call for me to speak Jesus into the lives of people around me. Why? Because God has promised a day of judgement when He will separate the nations as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats and when He will declare, "Depart from Me I never knew you." But this is also tied into the sheep caring for the poor and the hungry - feeding and clothing them in Jesus name.

It is both comforting and somewhat fear inducing at the same time that God ALWAYS does what He says He will do.