What's the most difficult transition life has demanded you make and accept? For me, it was joining the Air Force immediately after high school graduation. This transition required me to comply with the military code of conduct, which meant following tough rules I had not known growing up as a child and teenager.
All the Hebrews who left Egypt over the age of twenty, with the exception of an identifiable few, never entered the Promised Land. Their resistance and rebellion against God's standards for living kept them out. God identified them as stiff-necked and bent toward evil. Stiff-necked describes a person unwilling to change. This attitude prevented them from entering the Promised Land.
Their lack of trust and faith combined with their self-deception kept them shackled to old ideas and beliefs. Being transformed into God's people actually depends on his grace, which is his unearned favor. Still we must submit to his training, teaching, and discipline with a receptive mind and thankful heart, and doing this will bring us peace and unspeakable joy.
Do not be stiff-necked, as your ancestors were; submit
to the Lord. Come to his sanctuary, which he has consecrated forever. Serve the
Lord your God, so that his fierce anger will turn away from you…For the Lord your
God is gracious and compassionate. He will not turn his face from you if you
return to him.
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