October 8, 2012

  • Skip the Grasshopper Report!

    Trials. Nobody wants them. Nobody likes them. But, they are common to all men. How we get through them depends a lot on our attitude and outlook.

    (Numbers 13:30-33 NLT)  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!" 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!" 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. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. Next to them we felt like grasshoppers..."

    God had told the children of Israel that this land they were scouting out was THEIRS. He told them He would be with them to take this land for their own. Caleb and Joshua had faith for that. They had a positive attitude. They believed God. When these men tried to convince the people, they said the enemies are “like bread to us!” We will eat them up! Yeah! Let’s go for it!

    So, there were two reports. The “grasshopper report” and the “they're bread to us report.” The “It’s impossible report” and the “God is with us we can do it report.” The “scary giants report” and the “The bigger they are the harder they fall report.”

    We face situations like this, too. Impossible looking. Scary. Sometimes, we forget that God has promised He will see us through them. We forget He is with us in the valleys. Sometimes, we feel like tiny grasshoppers cowering under an ugly giant’s foot, expecting to be squashed.

    But wait! — we can choose NOT to be victims! We can choose to lift our eyes higher. We can choose NOT to focus on the giants and problems, but on the One Who has promised He will never forsake us.

    (Heb 13:5b AMP) “... for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you, nor give you up, nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]

    I wonder what would happen if instead of freaking out every time we faced something difficult and seemingly impossible, we would rise up and say, “ALL RIIIIGHT! ANOTHER WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR GOD TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG AND MIGHTY FOR ME!”

    Why not?  

Comments (5)

  • yes, sometimes I freak out but then a calm will come over me and I will remember that with God on my side that all things are possible.

    are you facing something in your life right now?

  • What a great post - and a timely reminder for me!  Blessings!

  • Very good post, Mae. So true!!! God should be our focus when trouble hits.

    frank

  • Thank you Mae.  A timely reminder as we go through decisions on David's care.  It is good to remember whose hand guides us. 

  • I've gone a little crazy here :) re ing left and right. Good stuffs about personal responsibility, understanding and respecting differences, faith and trust. God bless Mae. I'm sorry it's taken awhile to catch up. Still behind.
    You're all in my prayers , dear

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