Giants or Grasshoppers - - It's all in your perspective of God

Check out this account of God's people moving into the land that the Lord had promised them:


"When they returned from spying out the land, at the end of forty days, they proceeded to come to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land. Thus they told him, and said, "We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. Nevertheless, the people who live in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; and moreover, we saw the descendants of Anak there. Amalek is living in the land of the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan." Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we shall surely overcome it." But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us." So they gave out to the sons of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size. There also we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak are part of the Nephilim); and we became like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight." Numbers 13:25-33

A couple notes: Clay had a great message on Sunday about being enthusiastic as we serve up the Gospel even in the presence of giants.

Shortly after the message I was sharing a vision about where God is leading us in an area of ministry and had all the giants pointed out to me. I just didn't, and sill don't, see things the way this person saw them.

The Lord led me on this journey this morning. I thought I would look at giants and God's people, but instead came across "grasshoppers."

Check it out. The fearful said, "We became like grasshoppers in our own sight." When we really look at our humanity and forget we are connected with God, we only dwell on our inability to face what God has called us to.
Then they said, "And so we were in their sight." The fearful also make assumptions about the threat of what faces us. Joshua and Caleb were realistic about the challenges but were also excited about what God had promised.

Hey, here is who we serve!
"Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is He who sits above the vault of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers. Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in. He it is who reduces rulers to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless. " Isaiah 40:21-23

Here is the heart and responsibility of a good leader:
Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we shall surely overcome it."

Giants or grasshoppers, it's how you see God, not how you see yourself.

Just Thinking.