This morning when my wife got up to go to the gym, I felt this amazing pull to spend time with God. So I spent time in prayer and then went and did my daily bible reading. I came across and interesting thought and felt like sharing it.
Last fall I decided to do something that I had never really done, read completely through the Bible. No longer would I just open to a page and throw a dart and hope for a revelation of how wonderful God is. Actually study Gods word and let it change my life.
Anyways, this morning part of my reading was in Numbers Chapter 13, where God told the Israelite's to go into Canaan and explore their promised land. I knew this story from Sunday School growing up, but God gave me a fresh perspective this morning. In this chapter, Moses sent out leaders from every tribe of Israel to explore and scout the land. He asked them to look for several things while they were exploring. After 40 days the chosen scouts returned to where the Israelite's were camped to give their report. All the scouts were excited for the land, because as God promised, it was a land flowing with milk and honey. They even brought back amazing amounts of fruit to show how fertile the land was. However, giants lived in the land and all of the scouts except one said they would die trying to take the land. Verse 13 says, "Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said 'We should go up and take possession of the land, we can certainly do it.'" After that the other scouts began to make excuses due to the giants in the land and saying how small they were in the eyes of the giants. They even went as far to say that they were grasshoppers in the eyes of these giants.
My thoughts settled on Caleb when I finished reading this chapter. What an amazing statement of faith in God. He believed God was going to do what he promised when no one else did. He did not fear the future or who stood in the way. God made a promise and would keep it.
So here is my thought, the future that God has laid out for us is our own personal Canaan. God has promised us an amazing future, and when we look through His eyes at it we see how amazing that future really is. However, we let doubters (sometimes this includes ourselves) begin to say how big the giants are that stand in the way of this amazing future. So, if I am a grasshopper to a giant that is in my way, how big is God to move that giant out of the way? Isn't that giant like a grasshopper to God? Hmmm...
I just have a simple prayer to end this. God please let me see you and your plan for me over the giants that are in my future, and help me to boldly face them when I come face to face with them.
Thanks for stopping by and God Bless...
