Where
there is no vision, the people
perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
The story is a
pretty simple one. For years God’s
people heard about the promise that God was going to restore His people to the
land He promised them. Kind of like
something that seems like it would never happen or was years in the future, I
am sure that Caleb looked forward to the day the new land would be a reality,
but who knew that Caleb who be one of the first to see the land.
Joshua and
Caleb along with ten other men were hand picked to scout out the land, and what
they found was incredible. Their stories
about what they found was so awesome that they had to bring some things back
for others to see, like a cluster of grapes so big they had to have help
carrying them.
But when it was
time to lead the people into this new land all of the spies, minus Caleb and
Joshua, said this is an impossible happening.
The people of the land were big and mean, the ten spies said. There would be no way to remove them or
defeat them. Caleb shared a much
different story.
But
Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly
conquer it!”
After that
verse, the other spies convinced the people of God to live in fear rather than
in faith. Joshua and Caleb believed what
God said, that the land was theirs for the taking. The others saw the problems as too big to
overcome.
I’d like to
dream and see things the way Caleb did.
I want to see further than others see.
I want to believe what God says and lead others to see what God has
shown me.
Caleb was a
dreamer and a man of faith. I pray each
of us will see like Caleb saw.
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