It was their fear, unbelief, and lack of trust in God. It was the lies they bought into instead of believing God s truth. Caleb at 85 knew God s provision. He had faith all along and had waited and longed for this chance to claim the promises of God. But he had to wait for God s timing.
Sin usually isn t isolated.
It reaches out and touches and destroys families, friends, churches, nations. We can, like Caleb, go in and drive out the giants with God. This is also about choices. Israel could have blamed their choices on the fact that they only knew slavery in their lifetime. Just as we could have been afraid finally being on our own as adults away from controling, abusive parents, Israel was afraid.