“Life Applications”
Assumptions
There is a difference between the
truth and what we assume to be true. In
Numbers 13:33, ten of the spies that Moses sent to spy out the land of Canaan
reported that when they saw the occupants of the land, the people saw them as
grasshoppers. But in Joshua 2:8-11,
Rahab informed the spies that Joshua sent to Canaan that when the citizens of
Canaan heard of everything that God had done to the enemies of Israel, they
became terrified.
The unconfirmed assumption of the ten
spies caused the Israelites to spend forty additional years living in the
wilderness. We cannot assume that the
things we think about ourselves matches what others think about us or who God
has determined we are.
