We Are Not Just Grasshoppers!

I heard a Christian speaker on the radio as I drove home last night.  It was only for a few minutes, but I love how God just uses a few minutes of my life to speak to me, even if it's in the van.  The speaker was talking about Numbers 13 and how the spies were just coming back to give a report to Moses about what the land was like in Canaan.  Ten of the spies were scared, "...the people who dwell in the land are strong and the cities are fortified and very large...and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them." (vs. 28,33)

The speaker focused on the phrase, "we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers."  Is that how we view ourselves, too, like grasshoppers?  And how did they know that the people of Canaan thought they looked like grasshoppers, was it just an assumption?

This is not right.  If we know who God is and who is fighting for us, we will not see ourselves this way, as grasshoppers, but instead as a mighty army, capable of anything!  Caleb saw this, "We are well able to overcome it. "  He had a right view of God.  He knew who was fighting for them.  He was not in the same opinion as the other spies who saw themselves as grasshoppers.

It is not to speak arrogantly of ourselves and think we are greater than we are because in some senses, we are just grasshoppers, but if we view ourselves from the point of view of God, we are definitely not just grasshoppers.  We can speak with confidence, like Caleb, "we are able to overcome"......whatever it is that is in front of us.

I left the van encouraged.  We are not just grasshoppers.  Our family will overcome whatever obstacles are in front of us because we know God is fighting for us.