Two vs. Fox News and CNN

Numbers 12-14

Here is the old familiar story.  The children of Israel have finally arrived at the border of the Promised Land.  Twelve spies are sent out to give an account of the land.  On their return two said, ‘Let’s go!’ but ten said, ‘NO WAY, WE ARE WEAK AND THEY ARE STRONG!!!’ What’s so amazing is how quickly ten voices are able to sway a nation numbering in the millions.  Almost immediately, the entire nation of Israel’s collective backbone yellowed up because of ten cowards.  Stunning, what the power of a loud tongue can do. 

I see one great similarity here.  I would call my family great spies.  We have camped, hiked and climbed all over America.  We have visited all fifty states, our youngest before she was 17. 

Let me give you our eyewitness report:

This is a great country.  There are orchards, vineyard and groves overflowing with abundance from coast to coast.  In the summer you can drive all day in our heartland and never drive out of corn.  At harvest our silos and barns can’t contain it and we pile the grains and produce in great mountains beside the railroad.  We have forests as big as many countries and soils as rich as Solomon’s mines.  All our roads are good and go everywhere.  There are hospitals, clinics, dentists, optometrists and every known specialist in the book and they are in every town in America waiting to see you.  And here’s a stunner.  There are grocery stores everywhere and anytime you walk into them, no matter which state, they are full of food.  We have rivers aplenty, lakes like sand on the seashore, two oceans and more clear, sparkling creeks and streams than we can count.  We have mountain ranges, vast plains and never ending hills.  Every town, city and hamlet have a multitude of churches and synagogues and you know what, on every Sabbath they are full of really good people who really like one another.  But here’s our biggest surprise, most of America is just vast, beautiful empty spaces.   

So what’s my point? Turn off CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NBC, and all the rest.  Cancel your newspaper, we did.  They are all, almost exclusively, like the ten we read about, NAY SAYERS!!! 

How do we know all of this?  We’ve been there.  One month a year for the last seventeen years we have walked through it.  And here is our official report; “We went into the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey.”  Numbers 13:27