Title: Who Is Willing To Go The Distance?
Text:
Joshua 14:6-11 (HCSB)
6 The descendants of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD promised Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.
7 I was 40 years old when Moses the LORD's servant sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout the land, and I brought back an honest report.
8 My brothers who went with me caused the people's hearts to melt with fear, but I remained loyal to the LORD my God.
9 On that day Moses promised me: 'The land where you have set foot will be an inheritance for you and your descendants forever, because you have remained loyal to the LORD my God.'
10 "As you see, the LORD has kept me alive ⌊these⌋ 45 years as He promised, since the LORD spoke this word to Moses while Israel was journeying in the wilderness. Here I am today, 85 years old.
11 I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. My strength for battle and for daily tasks is now as it was then.
Observation:
Today I am focused on Caleb. What an inspiration, and an encouragement for all of God's children of the blessing of being faithful to God in the hard times of our journey through this world.
There is a blessing for being faithful to God. For the unbelieving, there is no hope, and because of this, they died in the wilderness. However, for Caleb, he had faith, and he was faithful. He had a living hope, and he lived to enter the promised land.
Numbers 14:24 (HCSB)
24 But since My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me completely, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.
Prayer:
Father, I extol You, and give praise, and thanksgiving to You for who You are, and for Your mighty works.
Father, I pray that You will find me to be a faithful servant, and that I will be faithful to the end.
Father, my heart's desire is to be united with others who are willing to believe in You, and are willing to be faithful to the end; to go with me to the Promised Land. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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