December 04, 2021
Daily Devotion:
"Let Us Go Up at Once and Possess It..."
Numbers 13:32-33
New International Version
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.”
We read in Numbers 13 of how Moses sent twelve men to scout out the Promised Land to see if it was good or bad. Ten of the men came back with what the Bible refers to as “an evil report” (Numbers 13:32). They told Moses, “The land is good, but there are giants in it!” They also referred to themselves as “grasshoppers,” meaning they believed they were insignificant and incapable of defeating the enemy.
The fear they had of the giants prevented God’s people from entering the land that He had promised to give them. It wasn’t really the giants that defeated these people; it was their poor self-image. They only saw the giants; they failed to see God, and they failed to believe that with God, they could do anything they needed to do.
Joshua and Caleb were the only ones who had a proper attitude. Caleb said to Moses and the people, “Let us go up at once and possess it; we are well able to conquer it” (Numbers 13:30). They had the attitude that God wanted them to have. They believed that with God, all things were possible.
God had a glorious future planned for all of the Israelites, just as He does for us, but only the ones with a proper attitude toward God and themselves will live in it and enjoy it. God does not have a bad attitude toward you; don’t have one toward yourself
