Perception versus belief: it’s what faith is all about. How you interpret something isn’t always reality, even though it’s “you’re reality” in your own mind. Do you trust God with your situation or do you perceive it to be impossible? If you trust God with your life, even what’s perceived as impossible, is possible because God is in control. Faith allows us to move forward against perceived, impossible odds, because God is in the business of “impossible”. Caleb and Joshua were the only two that realized God is bigger than there problems. They were the only two that trusted God fully. As it says in the NT, “if God is for us, who can be against us”? And “nothing is impossible with God”. Start believing it, get to know the God of the Bible. He’s big enough for your circumstances, and He’s worthy of your praise, trust, and affection. You will never waste an one ounce of effort in pursuit of God, and never be betrayed by giving Him your trust. Faith overrides perception, when God is the object of our faith.
25 After exploring the land for forty days, the men returned 26 to Moses, Aaron, and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land. 27 This was their report to Moses: “We entered the land you sent us to explore, and it is indeed a bountiful country–a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces. 28 But the people living there are powerful, and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak! 29 The Amalekites live in the Negev, and the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country. The Canaanites live along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and along the Jordan Valley.”30 But Caleb tried to quiet the people as they stood before Moses. “Let’s go at once to take the land,” he said. “We can certainly conquer it!”31 But the other men who had explored the land with him disagreed. “We can’t go up against them! They are stronger than we are!” 32 So they spread this bad report about the land among the Israelites: “The land we traveled through and explored will devour anyone who goes to live there. All the people we saw were huge. 33 We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. Next to them we felt like grasshoppers, and that’s what they thought, too!”
Numbers 13:25-33
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