It’s Monday, time for history again. Today, we’re in Joshua 11-15.
Today’s notes:
Joshua 14:6-12 (NIV)
6Now the men of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. 7I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, 8but my brothers who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear. I, however, followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly. 9So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.’10“Now then, just as the LORD promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the desert. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11I 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. 12Now 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.”
I love the example of faith given in Caleb. We find him here, some 40 years after originally reporting that the Israelites should move forward to take the land of Canaan (as directed by God)… still ready to go and fight the battles God commanded at the ripe old age of 85. Our strength is never what matters when it comes to doing things for God, and Caleb apparently understood that.
What a reminder his faith is for us when God asks us to do something we think we’re incapable of doing!
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