Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Numbers 32:6-13
by: Dale E. Rood.
God is looking for people who wholeheartedly seek him. Moses here is expressing concern to the Gadites and Reubenites who want to remain on land east of the Jordan River, therefore threatening to weaken Israel as they prepare to cross Jordan to conquer the promised land. He reminds them how the spies they had selected 38 years earlier had discouraged Israel by the bad report of the land they wanted to enter. Then he notes how Joshua and Caleb did not join in this bad report. This was because Joshua and Caleb were wholeheartedly seeking God. This is the sort of person God is looking for to lead.