Unbelief It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by way of Mount Seir to Kadesh Barnea. Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the LORD had given him as commandments to them. Deuteronomy 1:2-3 Notice, Moses already understood the sin of unbelief. They did not see it. Their grandmothers, grandfathers, fathers and mothers were not going into the Promised Land. Only those under the age of 20 years old would enter the land. The rest died on the other side. They would never see the Promised Land. I think of all my great grandparents: Spaniards, Germans, Mexicans, all the way back, our whole genealogy. All of us and how we came to know Christ. How God took the time to get our attention, so we could be saved — otherwise we would be lost. How many have chosen to wander in the wilderness rather than believe in God? How many family members do we have who, because of unbelief, may never enter the Promised Land — never be saved? Like Moses, we understand the sin of unbelief, and we need to reach out to our family, friends and coworkers. Christ distinguished between doubt and unbelief. Doubt says, ‘I can’t believe.’ Unbelief says, ‘I won’t 
believe.’ Doubt is honest. Unbelief is obstinate.
-Henry Drummond-
Raul Ries: "Moses already understood the sin of unbelief."
