Moses sends twelve spies to search out the land that God had promised them. After forty days of searching the land they came back with the following report, "And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there." Then stood up a man of faith by the name of Caleb who said, "Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." The ten spies who said it could not be done compare themselves to grasshoppers and the sons of Anak to giants. They saw the size of the obstacles and concluded that it was too hard, too big, too much! There problem was a faith problem. First they failed to believe the promise God had given them that this would be their land. Second they looked at this challenge through their own eyes apart from God. When we face obstacles in our lives do we act the same way? When something hard comes into our lives do we say we just can't do it, or do we take God at His word, and believe "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." When difficulties come into our lives, how we look at them will determine our response. If we look at them through our own eyes we surely will say, "I am a grasshopper and this problem is a giant." If however we put God into the equation we will see that, "With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible." Every challenge, difficulty, hard endeavor in the Christian life is a trial of your faith. If you respond with, "I can't, its too much, its too hard," you are missing out on God's best. O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? If we are going to grow our faith we must look at every situation with God in the equation. When we do, we will not say "I am a grasshopper, this is a giant," but rather we will say to our problem "your the grasshopper!" Where is your faith? I believe God's promise and have decided to face the giants in my life because He said, I can do all things through Christ! Amen! How about you?
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Numbers 13:16-33
Moses sends twelve spies to search out the land that God had promised them. After forty days of searching the land they came back with the following report, "And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there." Then stood up a man of faith by the name of Caleb who said, "Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." The ten spies who said it could not be done compare themselves to grasshoppers and the sons of Anak to giants. They saw the size of the obstacles and concluded that it was too hard, too big, too much! There problem was a faith problem. First they failed to believe the promise God had given them that this would be their land. Second they looked at this challenge through their own eyes apart from God. When we face obstacles in our lives do we act the same way? When something hard comes into our lives do we say we just can't do it, or do we take God at His word, and believe "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." When difficulties come into our lives, how we look at them will determine our response. If we look at them through our own eyes we surely will say, "I am a grasshopper and this problem is a giant." If however we put God into the equation we will see that, "With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible." Every challenge, difficulty, hard endeavor in the Christian life is a trial of your faith. If you respond with, "I can't, its too much, its too hard," you are missing out on God's best. O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? If we are going to grow our faith we must look at every situation with God in the equation. When we do, we will not say "I am a grasshopper, this is a giant," but rather we will say to our problem "your the grasshopper!" Where is your faith? I believe God's promise and have decided to face the giants in my life because He said, I can do all things through Christ! Amen! How about you?
Moses sends twelve spies to search out the land that God had promised them. After forty days of searching the land they came back with the following report, "And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there." Then stood up a man of faith by the name of Caleb who said, "Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." The ten spies who said it could not be done compare themselves to grasshoppers and the sons of Anak to giants. They saw the size of the obstacles and concluded that it was too hard, too big, too much! There problem was a faith problem. First they failed to believe the promise God had given them that this would be their land. Second they looked at this challenge through their own eyes apart from God. When we face obstacles in our lives do we act the same way? When something hard comes into our lives do we say we just can't do it, or do we take God at His word, and believe "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." When difficulties come into our lives, how we look at them will determine our response. If we look at them through our own eyes we surely will say, "I am a grasshopper and this problem is a giant." If however we put God into the equation we will see that, "With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible." Every challenge, difficulty, hard endeavor in the Christian life is a trial of your faith. If you respond with, "I can't, its too much, its too hard," you are missing out on God's best. O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt? If we are going to grow our faith we must look at every situation with God in the equation. When we do, we will not say "I am a grasshopper, this is a giant," but rather we will say to our problem "your the grasshopper!" Where is your faith? I believe God's promise and have decided to face the giants in my life because He said, I can do all things through Christ! Amen! How about you?
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