Today's devotion comes from Numbers 13:25-33.
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"We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."
Numbers 13:33
So often, we find ourselves doing the same thing these spies were doing...seeing things "in our own eyes."
The blessing of the Lord was right in front of them. The land was filled with milk and honey!
But the battle seemed too much. All they saw was a land that devoured its inhabitants and a people too great for them to conquer.
In the spies minds, the people of the land even thought of the Israelites as grasshoppers. But in reality, the Canaanites were terrified of them because of who they followed. In Joshua 2:11, Rahab tells Joshua's spies what the other nations really thought about Israel:
"When we heard of it, our hearts melted and everyone's courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on the earth below."
The Canaanites knew the power of the God of the Israelites and were afraid. But the Israelites themselves, God's chosen people, had lost sight of it.
And they would end up spending the next 40 years wandering in the desert until they could see things clearly. Until they could take their eyes off of how big the circumstances appeared to be and set their eyes on how big their God is.
Someone once said that the eye that shifts its focus off of God and onto the world will lack the stability to take confident steps in victory.
What are your eyes focused on today?
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