Negativity Comes Naturally. Positivity Comes Supernaturally
What is it about us? Why are we so prone to negative thinking? Numbers 13:1–3 (ESV) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them.” 3 So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel. Moses sends the leaders of the tribal families of Israel into the promised land. This land that was promised according to the covenant God made with Abraham back in Genesis 15. It's already been agreed upon. There's no doubt, according to God, Israel will possess this land. But even the spying out of the land was a step in the wrong direction. Numbers 13 makes it sound like spying was God's idea. But all Numbers 13 is doing is picking up a conversation recorded in Deuteronomy between Moses and the people. Deuteronomy 1:22–25 (ESV) ...