Good Morning Friends,
When Moses sent the Hebrew spies into the
land of Canaan, ten of them came back to report that the people of Canaan were
too big and too strong and the people of Israel should not try to fight them. Two
of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, came back and reported that although the
Canaanites were strong, God would give them into their hands because He had promised
to do so and they should take the land for the Lord.
The people of Israel listened to the ten
unfaithful spies and rejected the report of the two men of faith. As a result,
all of the Israelites who were twenty-one years or older on that day died in
the wilderness during the next forty years of wandering. Only two of those over
twenty-one still lived when Joshua led the people of Israel into the land ---
Joshua and Caleb!
Caleb was 40 years old when Moses sent him to
spy out the land (Joshua 14:7) and 45 years have now passed, making Caleb 85
years old (Joshua 14:10). At 85, Caleb comes to Joshua with a request: “I am
still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go
out to battle now as I was then. Now give me this hill country that the LORD
promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and
their cities were large and fortified, but, the LORD helping me, I will drive
them out just as he said.” (Joshua 14:11-12)
And Joshua granted Caleb’s request and Caleb
did as he said he would do, he drove out the Anakites and conquered the hill
country.
“So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since, because he followed the LORD, the God of
Israel, wholeheartedly.” (Joshua 14:14)
Caleb was faithful to the Lord. The Lord was faithful to Caleb.
How faithful are you?
His, by Grace,
Steve
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