Caleb is the Man!!!

We have all heard this story before. The Isrealites have finally made it to the promise land, and Moses sends out a group to go spy and check out the land. They return saying the “land is great, and plentiful,” and they even bring back some fruit, which if you remember from the VBS pictures, were grapes as big as some of our heads! We all probably remember what happens next, the men sent out as spies then start proclaiming, “we can’t go in, the men are like giants, and we are like ants in there eyes, the cities are way too big and strong!” But today I want to look at the only one of the spies that didn’t disobey, and didn’t question God sending them into this land, Caleb. Caleb was a part of the group to go in, he saw the land and how plentiful it was, and he brought back some of the fruit with the rest of them. He also saw the so-called “giants” and the big cities, but he is attitude was completely different then the others that went also. When they are saying, “no we can’t go in there,” he was saying “lets go and take it.” I don’t know what it is but something about these guys not believing is going to come back and bite them in the butt here sooner or later. And actually it happens here, did you catch when God said that because they are an evil generation that they will not set foot again in the promise land? Except for Caleb of course, because he believed in what God had promised them, and no matter what the people looked like he was going to remain faithful to what God had promised them. It’s just sort of a little reminder, that God always has a plan and a purpose, even when it seems like what he has called us to do is impossible. Let it also remind us that if we continue to doubt what God can do in our lives, even though he has more then proven himself faithful, we might miss out on the big opportunity that God has called us to.