Proverbs 3:5-6 – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.”
What does it look like to trust in the Lord with all your heart? Whose lives in the Bible are good examples of this? One example is Caleb. How do we know that he is a good example? The Bible tells us! Numbers 14:24 says, “But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows Me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it.”
What did Caleb do to deserve this recognition? Earlier in Numbers 14, after a group of Israelites came back from exploring Canaan, Caleb and Joshua were the only 2 who had a good report to give about the land. The other Israelites feared the current inhabitants of the land, but Caleb and Joshua said, “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 be afraid of the people of the land, because we will swallow them up. Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them”.
Caleb came back with a report of faith and confidence in the midst of others who were filled with doubt and fear. How was he able to do that? He trusted in God instead of looking around at his circumstances and leaning on his own understanding.
I pray that we are able to put into practice the example that Caleb gave us. Psalm 22:4-5 gives us more encouragement for trusting God: “In you our fathers put their trust; they trusted and you delivered them. They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed.”
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