This chapter and verse is fascinating for several reasons.  I’m going to keep on being intrigued with the Old School (aka Old Testament) for probably the rest of my life due to this devotional track I’m bouncing along.  One of the things that sticks out to me here is the fact that God continues to express his outright frustration with his people to the point of throwing up his hands (figuratively) and putting most of the current generation in permanent time out (literally).  He’s tired of the people complaining, whining and throwing wrenches into the works that he simply tells them they will never see The Promised Land because they’ve been whiny little inconsiderate brats.  Figuratively.

When I was growing up (yes Virginia, I did have a childhood) I did my share of what the Israelites did but I learned that despite everything I wasn’t going to get my way no matter how hard I tried to push the will of my parents with my pouting petulant pose.  They wouldn’t budge. This is one of the many things my parents did right as I grew up.  Considering that I’m (for the moment) a well adjusted late twenties bachelor gives proof that I was raised right.  Except for the time my mother let me roll off a changing table in JC Penny…but who’s holding a grudge?

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