Walk By Faith And Not By Sight

For we walk by faith, not by sight - 2 Corinthians 5:7.

                 Joshua and Caleb brought good report about the land of Canaan. Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it” - Numbers 13:30. The other ten spies brought bad report about the land. But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight - Numbers 13:31-33.                

               Joshua and Caleb walked by faith whereas the other spies walked by sight. The ten spies died by a plague before the Lord but only Joshua and Caleb were spared. Now the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned and made all the congregation complain against him by bringing a bad report of the land, those very men who brought the evil report about the land, died by the plague before the Lord. But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land - Numbers 14:36-38..  

                 Only Joshua and Caleb were able to inherit the promised land as they had a spirit of faith. But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it - Numbers 14:24. And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak - 2 Corinthians 4:13.                                                            

  

 PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us to walk by faith and not by sight. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.