Our recent study in the life of Moses got me thinking about it.  They could see it just over there.  They could almost taste the sweetness of its “milk and honey.”  Perhaps they could even sense the coolness of its fertile fields in sharp contrast to the parched desert that had been their home for the last year and a half.  God’s people were at a place called Kadesh-Barnea.  God had brought them there, and now He was ready to usher them into their new land.  Along the way, He had parted the sea, given manna from the sky, brought water out of solid rock, defeated their enemies, and manifested His glory to them over and over.  But in spite of all that, the sweet anticipation of the Promised Land suddenly turned bitter in their hearts.  Ten of the twelve men sent to explore the land came back with glowing reports of the land itself, but paralyzing fear of its people and cities.  “We be not able” were their exact words.  With hearts and reason clouded by unbelief, the people then made this unbelievable statement: “And wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this land to fall….” (Numbers 14:3).  You know the rest of the story.  Their unbelief drove them back into forty aimless, wandering years of wilderness living.  All because they misjudged their God!  Have you done that lately?  You’ve seen God graciously carry you through trial after trial; yet now as you face a fierce enemy and his formidable fortress, you shrink back and anxiously doubt your Lord.  Let me encourage you to take heart and meditate on King David’s words in Psalm 18:18-19.  “They prevented me in the day of my calamity; but the Lord was my stay.  He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because He delighted in me.”  God hasn’t brought you this far to fall or fail.  Unbelieving Israel said, “The Lord brought us to fall.”  Faithful David said, “He brought me forth.”  Now, whose example will you follow today?