Caleb: The Man That Found The Fountain Of Youth

Caleb wholly followed the Lord. The world today is looking for a way to escape form the facts of life. A lot of people today just can’t face the reality of life and they turn back to the past life, or they turn to alcohol, drugs, or false reality games to hide.

Caleb could face his present situation because he looked beyond it. God had called Israel to go into the land of Canaan, and Caleb believed it could be done.

III. Faith to Face the Future

Notice Joshua 14:7, 10, 12: “7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought word back to him as it was in my heart. 10 Now behold, the Lord has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty five years, form the time that the lord spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walk ed in the wilderness; and now behold, I am eighty five years old today. 12 Now then, give me this hill country about which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out as the Lord has spoken.”

Caleb picked the toughest place in all of Canaan to be his new home, and said one day that land were the giants live will be mine. Caleb didn’t get to cross into that Promised Land that day after spying it out, due to the lack of faith from the majority. And God sent them back into the wilderness for 38 more years.

That desert was real to Caleb, just like all the other Israelites. But the difference was as they kept looking back to what they knew in Egypt; Caleb was looking to Hebron, the home of the Anakim (the giants). Did you know that the word “Hebron” means communion with God. Caleb knew that one day he was going to be in that place of communion with God. And when the others of his generation passed away looking backwards, Caleb had his eyes set on the promise of God.

In Joshua 15:14, we see that Caleb did get to Hebron and he did drive out the giants. It was his possession now, because he knew that God was bigger than the giants.

Closing

Let me sum it all up for you with the words of Paul in Philippians 3:13-14:

“Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.”