Faithful to judge and save

For the LORD had said of them, “They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.

Numbers 26:65

Four decades of waiting

slowly those forty years came

but God was keeping His word

both to judge and to save

The wilderness stretched on

and Israel never could nudge

any further than that desert

as God led, dealt, and judged

A generation endured punishment

from their God’s firm, righteous hand

they all died in that desert

faithless bones left in the sand

Two faithful believers

who trusted God and were brave

watched all their contemporaries fall

while their two lives God did save

Joshua and Caleb

were kept from the grind

of desert wandering death

to know the promise God had in mind

So we worship a God

with power to judge and to save

knowing on the cross Jesus too

judged sin and new life gave

The power of our Savior

we should never begrudge

He can do as He pleases

He is both Deliverer and Judge!