When you plan isn't working, perhaps God is.  That's not meant to be motivational drivel.  It's meant to encourage us that when God stops us and gets our attention, perhaps He is calling us to repent and believe something new in the Gospel!

The new generation of Israel has moments of great faith followed by a massive failure.  God's faithfulness sees them through as they learn to depend on Him daily and regularly repent.  We can do the same because of love and power of God shown to us in Jesus on the cross.

Because of the resurrection, Godly people develop Godly peace personally and communally.  The seeds of peace are sown in faith in what God has done, is doing, and will do someday in making all things new.

Love begins and ends with liberation.  Instead of seeking our liberation FOR self, the resurrection gives us liberation FROM our selves.  That liberation makes us better lovers of God and others...which leads to their liberation.

Because of what God has done, is doing, and will do, we can cultivate the fruit of joy in our lives.

It is exactly the right mistake to make to see Jesus as a gardener outside his tomb.  At the resurrection of Jesus, new creation has begun and as followers of Jesus, we are part of it.  We can "bloom" in the wilderness with evidence of this new creation displaying joy, love, and peace.

Following their rebellion, the people of Israel sense the great separation between them and a holy God.  But God, in His grace, provides intermediaries and purification.  In the Gospel of Jesus, we find the grace to be in the presence of a holy God.

In Numbers 16 & 17 we find the people of God responding to God's grace with more rebellion and grumbling, to the point of challenging God's appointment of Aaron as high priest.  But God demonstrates his grace to the people and his vindication of Aaron when Aaron acts as the mediator between the living and the dead...just like Christ.

Numbers 14 ends with a question mark: since an unbelieving generation will be condemned to die in the wilderness, and the next generation will wander for 40 years, what will come of God's promise to enter the land?  Numbers 15 is the answer: God still desires fellowship with His people by His grace and their obedience.