The Canaan that Moses saw was not a land flowing with milk and honey, but a dark brown wilderness.
The dark brown wilderness that he had seen every time he opened his eyes for the past 40 years was spread out before Moses' eyes.
“Oh, God, didn’t you say that Canaan was a land flowing with milk and honey? Is this really Canaan that I see?” As Moses gazed at Canaan spread out before his eyes, he might have thought, “If that’s the Canaan I’m looking at, then it wouldn’t be so unfair not to enter.”

In fact, shouldn't the Canaan we dream of have the Nile River, a river that allows farming year-round, free from drought and famine, and without worrying about water? Egypt should have only one river, like the Jordan. But in Canaan, there's only one river, the Jordan, a little larger than a stream.
So, in Canaan, they cannot live by relying on the river like in Egypt.
We must survive solely on the rain that falls from the sky.
In Canaan, one has no choice but to live a life of farming, looking only at the sky.
Canaan is a land flowing with milk and honey when it receives rain from the sky, but a wilderness when it does not receive rain.

Living in Canaan, the land God chose, the land flowing with milk and honey, the promised land, does not mean that famine will not strike.
Even if you don't leave your father's house like the prodigal son, you will face famine in life.
Even if you obey God's command like Abraham and go where He leads you, you will encounter famine.
As we live, famine and hardship will come to everyone.
There is no Canaan without such things.
Even if we live in faith, in God's care, in God's blessings, in obedience to God's word, in prayer, and in fellowship with God, there are times when famine comes and times when we face life's hardships.

Even if you live in Canaan, if God does not bestow grace and blessings upon you, you will live a life like in the wilderness. Even if you live in the wilderness, if God gives you grace and blessings, you will live a life like in Canaan.
Canaan, the Promised Land, is a place where one can survive only by looking to God, just like in the wilderness.
So God gave Canaan, not Egypt, to the Israelites.

If we are where God has sent us, we are already in Canaan.
If I come to the wilderness under God's guidance and under God's providence, then that wilderness is Canaan.
Even if the place I am in feels like a wilderness, if God sent me here, then this place where I am now is Canaan.
“We have come here following God’s calling, but God, this is not Canaan, but the wilderness.” To us, God speaks.
“I sent you into the wilderness.
I have given you the wilderness as Canaan.
“For you, the wilderness is your Canaan.”

Israel also entered Canaan and failed.
The medieval church also failed in Canaan.
Same goes for us.
When things are difficult and trials are many, when we are living in Canaan, when we are at peace and free from troubles, it is more dangerous than when we are passing through the wilderness.
People fail more in Canaan than in the wilderness.
It is not in the wilderness that people stumble, but when they enter Canaan.
Even if you endure well in the wilderness, you will fall weakly once you enter Canaan.

When you enter the wilderness, you become empty.
Don't try to get anything more.
Live content with what you have.
But in Canaan, they are not self-sufficient.
Not satisfied with what you have.
We strive to own more, achieve greater success, and enjoy more.
When you enter Canaan, you will live a life consumed by greed.
You will follow Baal.
In some ways, Canaan is more dangerous than the wilderness.
So, while God's grace is absolutely necessary when passing through the wilderness, grace upon grace is necessary when living in Canaan.

In the wilderness, live according to God's guidance.
Walk with God.
Live relying only on God.
Be grateful even if you just meet me.
Be thankful even if you can only escape the dew in your tent.
Then God will be a path in the pathless wilderness, a shade in the shadeless wilderness, and an oasis in the wilderness without living water.
Even when you walk through the wilderness, you have nothing to fear as long as God is with you.
If we walk through the wilderness with God, we can be victorious in the wilderness.

Moses was not able to enter Canaan.
But he did not regret not being able to enter Canaan, the land flowing with milk and honey.
Because he entered the real Canaan while the Israelites were entering the false Canaan.
Yet, how much effort do we expend trying to enter the false Canaan? It seems that not many people strive to enter the true Canaan.
In the (false) Canaan that we think of, we cannot enjoy the eternal peace of heaven, the heavenly peace, the rest of God, the Menuha.
The true menu can only be enjoyed by entering the heavenly Canaan.
We must strive to enter into that rest.

3,000 years ago, Baal was worshipped as God.
But today, God is being made into Baal.
Look at the content of the prayer.
All prayers are to Baal, not to God the Creator, the God who works among us, the God of salvation.
It is a prayer for everything to go well, not a prayer for living a righteous life.
It is a prayer to build a good house and live well, not a prayer to live according to God's will.
Isn't it true that we say 'Lord, Lord' with our mouths, but in our hearts we say 'Baal, Baal'?

It is not the Bible that unbelievers read, but us.
It is not about reading the Bible and believing in Jesus, but about looking at us and believing in Jesus.
No, they don't believe in Jesus because they see us.
Shouting out 'Jesus, heaven, unbelief, hell' is not the only way to evangelize.
We must demonstrate the gospel not through words but through our lives.
People don't listen to what we say, they watch how we live.
The best way to evangelize is to show the gospel through your life.
As the lives of believers transformed by the gospel are revealed in the field of life, the church will see the number of people being saved increase every day.

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