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Here Is One Of My Favorite Bible Heroes

12/30/2020

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Joshua 14:10-11 - So now, look, the LORD has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the LORD spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.  Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then. NET 
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  • I Love Caleb 
What is there not to love about Caleb?  He was a man's man. He was a leader. He was a believer in God and what God could do.  He was one of the 12 men sent in to spy on the land of Canaan. All 12 spies said the land was great, but only Caleb and Joshua said with God's protection they could conquer the land of Canaan. 
  • A Young Caleb 
Numbers 14:6-10 - Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes; and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, "The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land." If the LORD is pleased with us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us — a land which flows with milk and honey. "Only do not rebel against the LORD; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the LORD is with us; do not fear them." But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.  NASU
 
Joshua and Caleb believed in the power of God. They testified to the entire nation of Israel of God's power and ability to deliver them. This is what they said:
  1. God will give them the land (which flows with milk and honey, this means there is a lot of grass and flowers, cows eat grass and make milk, bees pollinate and make honey from flowers)
  2. God has removed their protection.
  3. Trust God and don’t rebel against Him 
The Israelites didn't believe Joshua and Caleb and were about to stone them when the Glory of God appears and halts this stoning.
 
Caleb is about to be stoned because he believed or had faith in God. Our challenge for today is to have the faith of Caleb and not be afraid anything. We need to trust God. 
  • An Old Caleb 
I hear people today use their age as an excuse when you ask them to do something for the Lord or His church. We all could learn by taking a lesson from Caleb's playbook. He never used his age as an excuse to not do something for the LORD.
 
He says this about his age: Now look, I am today eighty-five years old.  Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then.
 
Now you have to admire a man like that one who is not going to use his age as an excuse. There is a man with a positive attitude. You just have to love his spirit. I know I do.

Now that I live in a retirement center I have started to play pickleball. One day I came home and told my wife my partner and I played two men who were both in their 80's and they beat us, and it wasn't pretty. 

If Caleb were alive today I could see him playing, exercising, and beating two guys 60 years old in Pickleball. 
 
Men and women of faith find a way to allow God to accomplish something with them. They never find excuses. They find a way to win or succeed.
 
God has something He wants to accomplish with you today. Will you rise to the occasion or give Him an excuse?
 
As we get ready to start a new year, 2021, let us pray that God will use us this year to accomplish anything He desires.
 
I challenge you to make a new year's resolution and that is we are going to be more like CALEB and less like the other 10 spies of which I bet you can't name one of them without looking up their names.
 
Negative people are forgotten it is the positive ones we remember.
 
Think About These:
 
Excuses fool no one except the ones who make them.
 
There aren't enough crutches in the world for all the lame excuses.
 
The man who wants to do something finds a way; the other man finds an excuse. 

Stay Pumped,

Gary A. Serago


Minister of God's Word
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