After 40 years God led them across the Jordan River into the promised land and then the real work began – they had to conquer the land and live as followers of God in a pagan world. God didn’t lead them out of Egypt into paradise but into the promised land.
There’s a lesson in that. Sometimes we expect God to give us paradise. But that’s not Gods way. He leads us into the wilderness and he leads us into the promised land. In the wilderness we learn to trust him and in the promised land our work as faithful followers begins. Paradise will come but until it does let’s be faithful disciples of our LORD Jesus Christ.