Caleb

Our Bible study was on Caleb - Faithfulness in action. Joshua 14.

Caleb states that he felt as strong at the age of 85 as he had at 40. I'm sure many of us wish we could say that - we feel as strong today as we did 40 years ago!

Forty five years prior to this Moses had sent ten men to spy out the land. They returned with a report of a wonderful land, but ten spies concluded they, Israel could not conquer it. These ten were very negative and said something like this, "No way we can conquer the land, not with what we have. We are like grasshoppers before giants."

Caleb and Joshua thought differently, but they were overruled. The majority won! The result the nation continued with the wanderings for another 40 years! Read the story in Numbers 14.

Now Caleb wants the land. "Please give me this mountain." He affirms that God had kept him alive the past 45 years. These difficult years include 38 years of wandering in the wilderness and seven years devoted to conquering the land of Canaan.

Like Caleb, God has made promises to us today, but we need to claim them. In Joshua 14:14 we read that the land that Caleb sought became his inheritance because Caleb followed the Lord wholeheartedly. We too can expect an inheritance of spiritual possessions if we put our faith in God and obey Him completely.