Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 9th March 2026
Wayside Chapel Daily Devotional 9th March 2026 March 9 Numbers 14:28, 33 28So tell them, 'As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you the very things I heard you say: 33Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the desert. The nation had come right up to the boundaries of the Promised Land and been afraid to trust God. They wanted to kill Moses and Joshua and elect a new leader to take them back to Egypt. Their lament was, "If only we had died in Egypt or in this wilderness." So God gave them their request. They wished they had died in the wilderness, and their sentence is exactly what they asked for. God's sentence is often to give man what he demands. If we could just have faith that what He has planned for us is so much better than our own ideas, we would move forward into the Promised Land. Instead, many demand death in the desert. That is sad, and yet it is what we ...