God is faithful. He did not completely wipe out Israel because of its obedience. God would not burn us all because, though He is a God of Wrath and Judgment, He is also a God of Mercy. God cannot turn His back from His people. God is true to His Word that He will never leave us nor forsake. However, God still has to punish sins, we as His people has to accept God's discipline for God's discipline is for our good.
Moses was about to expire before Israel entered the Promised Land. Moses hoped for someone who could lead the people as he left, God was upon Joshua and chose Joshua to lead the people. Joshua was one of the twelve spies who brought faith to the people that the land promised to them was good. He trusted God despite the fear of Israel.
God also could not allow His people to be without a shepherd. We, like sheep, are dumb. We do not know what we do. We need teachers to help us. God sent Jesus Christ to teach us. God sent Jesus to show us the Way, the Truth, and the Life, that whoever comes to the Father must come through Christ. However, Christ ascended to heaven. Christ brought the Holy Spirit to guide us. However, God cannot just make us into individual persons because God is a relational God. He wants us to have relationships and to be interdependent with others. He brought us to the Spirit of Sonship. He brought us to the body of Christ. He brought us to His Family. We cannot learn things on our own, we need mature people to help us and teach us, for the Holy Spirit is not only in us but also in others, in God's Family. God can use others to teach us. God wants us to trust Him. God wants us to be spiritual humans. He wants us to experience taste, smell, vision, and touch. He doesn't want us to be His wild child who has never experienced real love because we have been separated from a family unit where love is present. Though our earth family may have neglected us or their love is limited or something lacking, God brought us to His Family. Though our church family can be so imperfect that they have also neglected us, God brought us to His larger Family. Though a spiritual parent neglected you and left you, God brought us to His Family where there are more equipped spiritual parents to teach us, to mold us, to guide us as we continue to grow. God devised a family unit to allow us to grow--earth family for our physical needs and spiritual family for our spiritual needs. God cannot allow spiritual orphans to be roaming around not knowing what to do, though they have tried going to many churches, tried to study the Bible, but without proper guidance from a mature Christian, they remain wild children without a shepherd. I thank God for bringing me to a new spiritual Mom who can really teach me the Bible. Though she is from another city, I thank God for technology that we can communicate like we are close by. However, I hope to meet my spiritual Mom again and hug her. Yet I pray that no misunderstanding will separate me like my previous teachers who have left me.
All in all, God is our perfect Father who will never leave us though we misunderstand Him many times.
