The Price Paid

Numbers 32:11,12
'Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-12 not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the LORD wholeheartedly.'

I decided to use both of these verses today, as they go together so closely. It is a contrast--the men of Israel v. Caleb and Joshua. The men who came up from Egypt did not follow wholeheartedly, and they lost the chance to live in the land. Caleb and Joshua were wholehearted for the Lord, and they had their reward.
I have looked extensively at Caleb's reward for his wholeheartedness. The first of these verses reminds that it isn't merely missing a fabulous reward if I am not wholehearted. There is a serious price to be paid. For Israel, it was a 40-year wilderness camping trip, a generation that had to hope for mere survival rather than the blessings of an abundant land, watered by the rain.