See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God. But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called Today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till the end the confidence we had at first.
As has just been said:
“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts
as you did in the rebellion.
Who were they who heard and rebelled? Were they not all those Moses led out of Egypt? And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the desert? And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. - Heb. 3:12-19
Not believing God is a sin. When an entire nation does not believe God's promise, they wander in the desert for forty years and never get to see the promised land. The same is true for an individual. If we don't believe God and his promises, we will wander in the desert as well and will miss out on the promised rest and an abundant life here on earth. There are giants in the land. Sometimes that is all we see, but then we are not looking at God. It always has been and always will be a choice between seeing the giants or seeing God, between believing in giants or believing in God..
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