Have you ever heard of the Peril Principle?

According to Chuck Swindall, it's a common paradox when we're walking closely with God.

You see, most of us would assume that life gets easier when we're in harmony with God.

But actually, the closer we walk with God, the more challenges we face.

That's the peril principle.

Today on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall teaches from the Book of Numbers.

In this Old Testament record, we find Moses in a vulnerable position, and we discover how to rise above the unwanted

emotions that sometimes drag us down.

Now, Numbers Chapter 10, let's discover the perils of godly Moses.

Look at verse 11 of chapter 10.

Came about in the second year, in the second month, on the 20th of the month,

that the cloud was lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony.

And the sons of Israel set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai.

Then the clouds settled down in the wilderness of Perran. Verse 17. The tabernacle was taken down.

The sons of Gershon, the sons of Merari were carrying the tabernacle. They set out.

Now you would think that these people who had just seen the

law of God written with his own finger and just built this shiny golden beautiful piece of

construction from God's own mind that there would be a hundred percent excitement in moving to the

land of Canaan. But you know there wasn't. There's always a

group of people that don't want to walk with God who hang around a larger group of people that

does want to walk with God. You found that true? They're called in scripture the rabble. Look at chapter 11, for example.

Here we have these people on their way to Canaan, and all of a sudden, we've got a group

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