CALEB

Read Numbers 14: 30 (NRSV)

Caleb(He was not an Israelite) was a chosen spy to go into the promised land as the eyes of the nation Israel. God's purpose was to let the spies see the goodness of the land, and also those living in the land that would contest the entry by the Israelites. Some were giants. All the spies came back frightened and dismayed except Caleb and Joshua.

We would expect Joshua to be a leader - he was Moses' right hand, but Caleb? The witness of Caleb was that he "fully followed the Lord."

What comes from following the Lord? A power to fulfill the faith! Even at the age of eighty, Caleb asked for an inheritance different than that of the rest of the Israelites - a mountain, one inhabited at that time by giants!

Where are our Calebs today?

The amazing thing is that each one of Christ's children can be a Caleb, a "bold one."

Remember the faithfulness of Caleb, and the power of life Almighty God was pleased to add to it!