I love to read about Caleb in Scripture. He is the kind of man I would want for a good friend. I would have enjoyed spending time with him. Joshua chapter 14 informs us that Caleb is 85 years old and has not slowed down at all. He is as strong as he was at 40 years old. Can you imagine an 85 year old man fighting as well as any man?
We are introduced to Caleb 45 years earlier; he was one of the 12 spies who spied out the promise land. When the spies returned, Caleb and Joshua gave a good report of the land. They told how the land was everything that God promised it would be. They also encouraged the Israelites to have faith, believe the Lord, and claim their land. The other ten spies gave an evil report. They focused on the people and the walled cities, and saw the land as impossible to conquer. The 10 spies convinced the people to disbelieve God's promise to give them victory over the inhabitants of the land. The people followed the evil report of the ten. (Be careful when you follow the majority. Make sure the majority is right.) God punished the Israelites for their disobedience. He made them wonder in the wilderness until that generation had died. Everyone over twenty years old died in the wilderness except Joshua and Caleb. Joshua and Caleb were the oldest two people in all of Israel.
We read about Caleb again in Joshua 14. Caleb reminds Joshua that the Lord and Moses promised him the land that the spies had seen 45 years earlier. This was their special inheritance from the Lord. Every place they walked would belong to Caleb. Now at 85 years old Caleb was prepared to claim his blessing.
The land Caleb wanted to claim was inhabited by giants. There are also walled cities in the land. Caleb’s land was probably the most difficult to conquer of the promise land. Caleb is such a giant man of faith. He knew that if the Lord was with him he would be victorious. In Joshua 15:14 we are told that Caleb drove out the giants. Joshua 15:14 Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from there: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
We all have giants in our lives. We have things we need to conquer. We need to be a Caleb. Never let your strength and your abilities limit you from conquering a giant. Many times as we look at our problems we see them as so much bigger then we are. We need to compare our problems with God, how much smaller they are then God. Claim God's promises and climb that mountain.
Pastor Larry
We are introduced to Caleb 45 years earlier; he was one of the 12 spies who spied out the promise land. When the spies returned, Caleb and Joshua gave a good report of the land. They told how the land was everything that God promised it would be. They also encouraged the Israelites to have faith, believe the Lord, and claim their land. The other ten spies gave an evil report. They focused on the people and the walled cities, and saw the land as impossible to conquer. The 10 spies convinced the people to disbelieve God's promise to give them victory over the inhabitants of the land. The people followed the evil report of the ten. (Be careful when you follow the majority. Make sure the majority is right.) God punished the Israelites for their disobedience. He made them wonder in the wilderness until that generation had died. Everyone over twenty years old died in the wilderness except Joshua and Caleb. Joshua and Caleb were the oldest two people in all of Israel.
We read about Caleb again in Joshua 14. Caleb reminds Joshua that the Lord and Moses promised him the land that the spies had seen 45 years earlier. This was their special inheritance from the Lord. Every place they walked would belong to Caleb. Now at 85 years old Caleb was prepared to claim his blessing.
The land Caleb wanted to claim was inhabited by giants. There are also walled cities in the land. Caleb’s land was probably the most difficult to conquer of the promise land. Caleb is such a giant man of faith. He knew that if the Lord was with him he would be victorious. In Joshua 15:14 we are told that Caleb drove out the giants. Joshua 15:14 Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from there: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
We all have giants in our lives. We have things we need to conquer. We need to be a Caleb. Never let your strength and your abilities limit you from conquering a giant. Many times as we look at our problems we see them as so much bigger then we are. We need to compare our problems with God, how much smaller they are then God. Claim God's promises and climb that mountain.
Pastor Larry
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