When man gets the wrong thing in his head, he can actually stop the very plans of God Almighty.

And the men in Numbers 13 did just that.  

AFTER He told them to go into the land.

AFTER He brought them out of slavery.

AFTER He fed them in a land with no food.

And AFTER He had destroyed the greatest army in the world and saved them from certain death … they still doubted … and complained.

Numbers 13 31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”

But the reality is this:  Those people still had to fight giants.  They still had to face Anak.  They still had to be like “grasshoppers” in their own eyes.

They just had to do it out in the wilderness.

It is too bad that they didn’t listen to Joshua and Caleb.  Because Joshua and Caleb were listening to the right voice.  And … they told the other voices, those of men and in mind and spirit, to SHUT UP.

Are you telling those voices to SHUT UP?

It is hard to do, maybe even impossible to do, if your ears are shut to God.

Let me remind you of a few things:

  1.  Don’t judge those men who cowered down.  You’ve done it.  I’ve done it.  Anybody with a brain and some good old fashioned common sense has done it.
  2.  Remember your destiny:  To live, to die, and to be punished in the pits of Hell with an enemy who is waiting to devour your very soul.
  3.  And remember what Jesus did.  At just the right time, He showed up in a temple in Jerusalem and executed the only ONE MAN RIOT in the history of the world.  Anybody can jump in with an angry mob and wreak havoc.  But I hope to some day view the footage of one man doing that to a group.

Your life has many challenges if it is like mine.  As I go to think about and list them, I become overwhelmed.

But here’s the Truth:  It Is Well With My Soul

And that’s because Jesus has me.

He has the giants in front of me.

He has the enemy that surrounds me.

He has said that the gates of Hell will not prevail.

He has told me that I am forgiven.

And He is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.

So whatever it is that chooses to oppose me this day I say:  

“Do Your Worst”

Because the God I serve is mighty to save and the earth I walk on is His footstool.

John 3:16 says it best:

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Amen.  Amen.  And Amen.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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Coach J