Are you focused on your goal? Do you hold steady despite opposition??
Picture this: You are asked by your manager to do an assessment on a major business venture of which you and 11 other colleagues must agree. Upon reviewing/inspecting this venture, you report that, albeit seeming high risk, the move forward is sound.
However, all your other counterparts (with the exception of one) not only disagree with you, but are extremely vocal in their opinion. The manager follows their opinion and the venture is delayed. *Cough*, for 40 years.
Would you stand your ground? Would you still believe in the 'rightness' of your opinion??
Like the scenario above, in the book of Exodus, Moses conducted a major reconnaissance mission to view Canaan in preparation for the taking of the land. Joshua and Caleb and 10 other prominent leaders representing each of the 12 tribes were chosen to 'spy' the land and bring back their report. In their report each of the spies, readily acknowledged how amazing the land was. The land did in fact flowed with milk and honey and they showed Moses the fruit of it. Truly the place was a dream.
Yet with their report of the richness of the land also came the fears and worries as well. Ten of the spies
came back with a negative report, claiming that the people there were strong and the cities walled and very great. Caleb, however, speaking words to calm the people before Moses, gave a recommendation to move forward saying, "Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." Yet the ten spies contradicted Caleb's report, and gave the children of Israel a bad report, saying, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we...The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. "There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight." Because of this evil report, the plan to move the people to the promise land was nixed. Unbelief and fear prevented the people from capturing a dream.
The Lord told the people that no one in that generation would see the Promised Land. Yet Joshua and Caleb alone lived.
They were in their 80's when the time came to fulfill their dream. But fulfill it they did. And what is even more fascinating is that the scriptures implies that although they were advanced in years, they were still vigorous and apparently had not aged physically.
More to follow on this fascinating story...
Picture this: You are asked by your manager to do an assessment on a major business venture of which you and 11 other colleagues must agree. Upon reviewing/inspecting this venture, you report that, albeit seeming high risk, the move forward is sound.
However, all your other counterparts (with the exception of one) not only disagree with you, but are extremely vocal in their opinion. The manager follows their opinion and the venture is delayed. *Cough*, for 40 years.
Would you stand your ground? Would you still believe in the 'rightness' of your opinion??
Like the scenario above, in the book of Exodus, Moses conducted a major reconnaissance mission to view Canaan in preparation for the taking of the land. Joshua and Caleb and 10 other prominent leaders representing each of the 12 tribes were chosen to 'spy' the land and bring back their report. In their report each of the spies, readily acknowledged how amazing the land was. The land did in fact flowed with milk and honey and they showed Moses the fruit of it. Truly the place was a dream.
Yet with their report of the richness of the land also came the fears and worries as well. Ten of the spies
came back with a negative report, claiming that the people there were strong and the cities walled and very great. Caleb, however, speaking words to calm the people before Moses, gave a recommendation to move forward saying, "Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it." Yet the ten spies contradicted Caleb's report, and gave the children of Israel a bad report, saying, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we...The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. "There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight." Because of this evil report, the plan to move the people to the promise land was nixed. Unbelief and fear prevented the people from capturing a dream.
The Lord told the people that no one in that generation would see the Promised Land. Yet Joshua and Caleb alone lived.
They were in their 80's when the time came to fulfill their dream. But fulfill it they did. And what is even more fascinating is that the scriptures implies that although they were advanced in years, they were still vigorous and apparently had not aged physically.
More to follow on this fascinating story...