Sharing The Life Series

That comforts me! When things aren’t going the way that I want them to I can rest in the knowledge that God is in control. I put that information together with the fact that God loves me more than I can possibly imagine and it can help me to endure the most difficult of trials.

Read Joshua 15:14 page 125 Bible

This is an amazing statement that it is very easy to miss what it is saying. Last week in chapter fourteen, while Caleb was asking Joshua to give him the land that God had promised him, Caleb reminded Joshua that there were giants in the land.

Turn to Numbers 13. Caleb knew these giants were in Hebron because he had seen them when he was there forty-five years ago. When the twelve spies were sent into Canaan, Caleb and the others saw these giants in the land.

Read Numbers 13:27-33 page 80 Bible

The whole nation of Israel is terrified of these giants. The ten spies do a great job of making these giants seem even more giant than they are. Skip down to chapter 14 verse 6.

Read Numbers 14:6-9 page 80 Bible

Joshua and Caleb both remind the people that God has promised them the land and that He would drive out nations far greater than they are from before them. They even say that they these enemies will be their bread.

Turn to Joshua 14. Caleb has seen these giants before. He wasn’t afraid of them 45 years ago. In chapter 14 Caleb is asking Joshua to keep the promise that God made to him 45 years ago.

Read Joshua 14:12 page 124 Bible

This land with the Anakim, or giants, was the land that had terrified the people 45 years earlier. That is precisely the land that Caleb wants. He knows that all he needs is God on his side and that is enough to defeat any enemy including giants.

Go back to Joshua 15:14.

Read Joshua 15:14 page 125 Bible

Caleb deals with these giants that terrified the entire nation of Israel in one verse. These giants caused the people of Israel to have to wander around in the wilderness for 38 years. All of the adults died during that hike. Only those that were under the age of twenty at the time survived plus Joshua and Caleb.

And Caleb takes out these giants in one verse. We often give too much credit to the giants in our lives. All of us have giants in our lives. The giants are those things that are so huge that there is no way that we can handle them on our own.

Your giant might be the threat or reality of losing a job. Or your giant might be overwhelming debt. It could be a spouse or a child that is behaving badly. It could be the loss of someone close to you due to death or divorce. It could be a major health problem that is the giant that is threatening you. Your giant could be a major change that God is leading you to in your life. Turn to 1 Samuel 17.

This is a very familiar story about a giant and a young man. The giant is nine feet, nine inches tall. He has been trained since he was a youth to be a warrior. His name is Goliath. For forty days this giant has been taunting the army of Israel to come out and fight him.

Read 1 Samuel 17:10-11 page 156 Bible