To be anxious about nothing, pray about everything

Numbers 13:26-33
26 They came back to Moses and Aaron and the whole Israelite community at Kadesh in the Desert of Paran. There they reported to them and to the whole assembly and showed them the fruit of the land. 27 They gave Moses this account: "We went into the land to which you sent us, and it does flow with milk and honey! Here is its fruit. 28 But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there. 29 The Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the Jordan." 30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, "We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it." 31 But the men who had gone up with him said, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are." 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, "The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."

26 到了巴蘭曠野的加低斯，見摩西、亞倫，並以色列的全會眾，回報摩西、亞倫，並全會眾，又把那地的果子給他們看；27 又告訴摩西說：「我們到了你所打發我們去的那地，果然是流奶與蜜之地；這就是那地的果子。28 然而住那地的民強壯，城邑也堅固寬大，並且我們在那裏看見了亞衲族的人。29 亞瑪力人住在南地；赫人、耶布斯人、亞摩利人住在山地；迦南人住在海邊並約旦河旁。」30 迦勒在摩西面前安撫百姓，說：「我們立刻上去得那地吧！我們足能得勝。」31 但那些和他同去的人說：「我們不能上去攻擊那民，因為他們比我們強壯。」32 探子中有人論到所窺探之地，向以色列人報惡信，說：「我們所窺探、經過之地是吞吃居民之地，我們在那裏所看見的人民都身量高大。33 我們在那裏看見亞衲族人，就是偉人；他們是偉人的後裔。據我們看，自己就如蚱蜢一樣；據他們看，我們也是如此。」

• 初看這段經文總是覺得這班人沒有信心，神不是應許這地賜給他們嗎？為甚麼還是猶疑不決呢？抵他們激到神發怒，一律不可進應許之地，只有約書亞和迦勒有信心的資格。
• 這不正是我的寫照嗎？不知是否學歷知識太豐富，做每件事都要計算代價，計算是否值得。風險太大不做，回報少不做，沒有著數不做，要犧牲現有的不做 ... 在日常屬世的事是這樣，屬靈的事更小心奕奕，以為這樣就是一個沒過沒失，風平浪靜的基督徒。一條船永遠泊在港彎裡，從不出海，不能知道此船能否經歷驚濤駭浪。
• 信心的功課很難！我們有太多的憂慮，太多的如果，太多的可能。我們往往看到那些Impossible Things but not Impossible God。探子看到只是那裡的人，是巨人，是偉人，看不到流奶與蜜之地，因為對方的強壯正是他們的死穴，他們所懼怕的。今天撒但常用我們的懼怕去攻擊我們的信心，而正正神要我們在這些懼怕，無助中去倚靠祂，相信祂，這就是信心。神啊！真是很難的功課，但求祢幫助我看到祢過去在我身上的作為，保護，保守。當我懼怕那些「沒可能」的事情，想想你卻是那位「萬事都能」的神！
• 主耶穌亦曾告訴我們要「計算代價」。若只在屬世之事計算代價，而忽略了最重要那天上的事，那代價就太大了！The Cost of not following Jesus is far more than the cost of following Jesus.