June 7, 2014 GIVE ME THIS MOUNTAIN
It helps to understand that basically the Old Testament foreshadows the New Testament. We find in the Old Testament how God dealt with His people in a natural or physical way so to speak and what God did in the natural or physical in the Old Testament is a picture of the spiritual implications in the New Testament. (This is not to say that God does not work in the natural today.) For example, we don’t face physical giants, but we do face other types of giants we must defeat. Another example of this is found in the account of Caleb. If you are familiar with the Old Testament, you no doubt know the story of Joshua and Caleb and how they were the only two spies who wanted the children of Israel to enter the promise land and take possession of the land that God had promised them-a land flowing with milk and honey. The obvious difference between these two spies and the other ten was their faith in their God-they simply believed what He said. Caleb said that he was strong in his old age like he was in his younger years. Caleb stands as a good example for our culture. Even in old age, we can have vision and energy as a result of having faith in God. Our faith needs to be nurtured and exercised if it is to be a faith that energizes. Caleb had seen God work in marvelous ways; we to need to remember what God has done. Just as in the case of Caleb, God has mountains for us to conquer. There is one catch to Caleb’s success, and that is that “he followed the Lord God of Israel fully”-Joshua 14:14. Most of us have our share of mountains to conquer and our share of giants to defeat. There are two basic facts about Caleb’s life that needs to be true in our lives as well. Caleb had a heart to know and to follow God no matter how big the giants were and he had a living, active faith in God. The last picture we see of Caleb is him at age 85 claiming his mountain, a mountain where giants lived with fortified cities. Caleb did take the mountain and he did defeat the giants and he lived in the land. No matter your age, like Caleb, conquer the mountain facing you and defeat the giants and enter the land God has for you. The milk and honey you find will be better than what the bees and cows produce!
Joshua 14:11-14: “ “I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and coming in. Now then, give me this hill country about which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out as the Lord has spoken.” So Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. Therefore, Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day, because he followed the Lord God of Israel fully”.
Blessings,
Buddy
It helps to understand that basically the Old Testament foreshadows the New Testament. We find in the Old Testament how God dealt with His people in a natural or physical way so to speak and what God did in the natural or physical in the Old Testament is a picture of the spiritual implications in the New Testament. (This is not to say that God does not work in the natural today.) For example, we don’t face physical giants, but we do face other types of giants we must defeat. Another example of this is found in the account of Caleb. If you are familiar with the Old Testament, you no doubt know the story of Joshua and Caleb and how they were the only two spies who wanted the children of Israel to enter the promise land and take possession of the land that God had promised them-a land flowing with milk and honey. The obvious difference between these two spies and the other ten was their faith in their God-they simply believed what He said. Caleb said that he was strong in his old age like he was in his younger years. Caleb stands as a good example for our culture. Even in old age, we can have vision and energy as a result of having faith in God. Our faith needs to be nurtured and exercised if it is to be a faith that energizes. Caleb had seen God work in marvelous ways; we to need to remember what God has done. Just as in the case of Caleb, God has mountains for us to conquer. There is one catch to Caleb’s success, and that is that “he followed the Lord God of Israel fully”-Joshua 14:14. Most of us have our share of mountains to conquer and our share of giants to defeat. There are two basic facts about Caleb’s life that needs to be true in our lives as well. Caleb had a heart to know and to follow God no matter how big the giants were and he had a living, active faith in God. The last picture we see of Caleb is him at age 85 claiming his mountain, a mountain where giants lived with fortified cities. Caleb did take the mountain and he did defeat the giants and he lived in the land. No matter your age, like Caleb, conquer the mountain facing you and defeat the giants and enter the land God has for you. The milk and honey you find will be better than what the bees and cows produce!
Joshua 14:11-14: “ “I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and coming in. Now then, give me this hill country about which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out as the Lord has spoken.” So Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. Therefore, Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day, because he followed the Lord God of Israel fully”.
Blessings,
Buddy
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