When Pastor Michel was young, he went to the beach with a friend, and they decided to go in the water. He was swimming, but he was going no where. He kept on trying to move closer to shore with no success. Pastor Michel was caught in a rip tide and remembered he needed to swim parallel to the shore to get to safety. Eventually he did reach shore, but it taught him a valuable lesson in moving but going nowhere.Moses and the Israelites experienced that same sensation. They had escaped Egypt and four hundred years of slavery. The Lord had given them a home, the Promised Land. “And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.” Exodus 13:21 However, when they arrived, Moses sent out twelve men to examine the land. Ten returned with fear; two, Caleb and Joshua, encouraged the Israelites to go and conquer the “land flowing with milk and honey.” The others had forgotten all the miracles the Lord had performed in their journey like opening the Red Sea. Because the fear spread from the ten, the Israelitescomplained and rejected Caleb and Joshua’s positive message. What should have taken eleven days took them forty years. The Israelites wandered in the desert for decades because of their unbelief, disobedience, and fear. Movement does not mean you are moving forward.