Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies.

Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living.

A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living.

Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.

Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given.

The believer who feels the agony caused by rebellion will grow to become the best intercessor.