Choose to Believe
By Terance Clark June 21, 2025 6 Minute Read
Week 37
This Weeks Passage: Numbers 13:1 – 15:41
I’ve often told myself I am ruined because I have seen so much. I have seen angels, heard the voice of God audibly and experienced untold numbers of miracles of people being healed. I’ve seen lives changed and impossible dreams come true. One time three of us had similar dreams on the same night and another countless times I’ve dreamed of an event before it’s happened. I could go on, but what about you? What have you seen or experienced? How could I ever deny the one whom I have seen in such amazing ways.
Miracles Help Us Believe
What makes this weeks lesson so profound is that Israel rejects the land and the kingdom that God has for them because they failed to believe. One of the reasons why God showed them so many miracles, the ten plagues, the parting of the sea, water from the rock, manna from heaven was so that they would believe in Him. They would know that nothing was too hard for Him to do. No generation has seen greater miracles than that generation and yet when they stood before the people of the land they didn’t believe God could help them take it, and they wept.
This is a profound lesson and it’s repeated over and over again in scriptures. It says, the people of that generation saw my works or miracles and they tried me. He also says in numerous passages do not harden your hearts like the generation in the wilderness. They saw it all and yet they refused to believe. Not only that, but Jesus also makes the comparison to those who will never be forgiven if they blaspheme the Holy Spirit. God says to those in the wilderness because they didn’t believe they will never enter my rest. Do you see the connection. Those who see the hand of God at work and yet fail to believe will not enter His rest. They will never be forgiven. The writer of Hebrews connects it all in Hebrews 6:4-6.
“Those who see the hand of God at work and yet
Fail to believe will not enter His rest.“
How many times have you said or heard someone say if the Lord just showed me this or that, or if he did this or that not only would I believe, but then these other people will believe as well. These scriptures are to remind us that it’s not true. It doesn’t matter how much revelation or miracles one is given because if they have a hard heart they still will not believe. We are seeing the evidence of it right now as so many people are being led by the fear of what they hear and of what they are seeing. There is a connection between entering the land and entering the kingdom.
Choose to Believe
Those who do not believe are compared to the unbelieving in the wilderness and the scriptures declare just as God did not spare them but kept them from entering and allowed them to die outside of the promised land so will those who fail to believe all that God is doing in their lives will also fail to enter that which is promised to come and that is the Messianic kingdom that will begin when the Lord returns to set it all up on earth. That is the rest that He has been talking about, a kingdom of peace where He rules and reigns for a thousand years.
“Belief is not a tattoo on our arm
And faith is not a proclamation from our lips”
As we close this weeks lesson we see so many connections to Israel in the wilderness and the faith God is calling us to live out today. As so many are ranting and raving about what earthly kings are doing the master wants us to keep our focus on Him and His kingdom. Belief is not a tattoo on our arm and faith is not a proclamation from our lips it is the daily sacrificial life that we live out in joy and satisfaction knowing that God is providing everything we need. When I choose to see all that He is doing in my life and all that He has done I can trust to choose to follow Him wherever He leads me. Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as they did in the wilderness choose to believe!
