149 Today is a Good Day (Num 32)

Today was a good, good day.
I enjoyed it.
I am looking forward to another good day tomorrow.
And that happening is in no doubt at all.

Numbers 32
The tribes of Reuben and Gad had a very great number of livestock.
Well after last chapter, no joke Freddy.
At first I thought the request to stay on the opposite side of the river was reasonable.
It looked ok.
In the end they would still fight for the land, yet not move in.
Seems fine.
But then I realised.
They forgot the story that got them into the trouble in the first place and wander around the wilderness for 40 years.
They were rejecting the land God was offering them.
They were saying they knew better than God.
Because no matter how good the land they wanted was, it was no land flowing with milk and honey.
There were no bunches of grapes that took two men to carry.
God had said "I'll give you the best."
They were willing to take something less than that.

The second generation made a worse mistake than the first.
Kids, huh?

Why the rush?
Why not wait a little while longer after waiting 40 years?
Still scared of giants?
Still no trust in God's word?
Don't know, but I think years later when they compared what they got and what they could have had they would be spewing.