usually i post a weekend recap or something or other on mondays but i came across this verse today and i was remembered of how much i LOVE this verse!
Then Caleb told the people near Moses to be quiet, and he said, “We should certainly go up and take the land for ourselves. We can certainly do it.
-Numbers 13:30
i love this story in the Bible anyway, even though it has a sad ending. check it, Moses gets together one guy from each of the 12 tribes of Israel. he tells them to go check out a nearby land – the land that God promised to the Israelites – Cannan. sounds like a great movie title doesn’t it? “Cannan” – now playing everywhere. i like it.
anyway, these 12 dudes go check out Cannan and come back to everybody and 10 jokers decide that the entire nation of Israel should not go to the land that God has promised to give them. 2 of the spies, Joshua and Caleb, tell Moses that they should go for it!
i love the tenacity and will to take hold of what God has in store for these guys. they knew that God had told them that they were going to have that land and they believed. even when 10 other guys didn’t believe they could over take the people that were already living in Cannan, these guys didn’t back down to them and encouraged their leader to go for it.
the immediate story ends with the nation of Israel not going in and taking what God had given them, but the full story ended about 40 years later, when Joshua and Caleb led the children of Israel into the promised land while Moses watched from the top of a mountain, and all the other nay-sayers were in the ground! don’t let the nay-sayers get in the way of what God has promised you! if God says you can have it, take it!
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