The Dread of Not Mattering
“When dread shapes our lives, security turns into our god. When security turns into our god,
we worship the risk-free existence.” – Max Lucado
Figures 13:27-32
27 They gave Moses this account: “We went to the terrain to which you despatched us, and it does movement with
milk and honey! Here is its fruit.
28 But the folks who reside there are potent, along with the metropolitan areas are fortified and really significant. We even
noticed descendants of Anak there…
30 Then Caleb silenced the folks prior to Moses and said, “We really should go up and take possession
of your terrain, for we are able to undoubtedly do it.”
31 But the guys who acquired away up with him said, “We can not assault individuals folks; they are more powerful
than we’re.”
32 And so they spread among the Israelites a poor report about the terrain they acquired explored. They said,
“The terrain we explored devours individuals residing in it. All the folks we noticed there are of good size.
Figures fourteen:4-10
4 And so they said to each other, “We really should select a leader and go back to Egypt.”
5 Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown in front of your total Israelite assembly gathered there.
six Joshua child of Nun and Caleb child of Jephunneh, who had been among individuals who acquired explored the
terrain, tore their garments
7 and said to the overall Israelite assembly, “The terrain we handed by way of and explored is
exceedingly very good.
eight If the Lord is pleased with us, he will lead us into that terrain, a terrain flowing with milk and honey,
and can give it to us.
9 Only don’t rebel towards the Lord. And don’t be fearful of your folks of your terrain, mainly because we
will swallow them up. Their safety is away, but the Lord is with us. Do not be fearful of them.” 10 But
the total assembly talked about stoning them…
Joshua fourteen:6-12
six Now the guys of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb child of Jephunneh the Kenizzite
said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the guy of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and
me.
7 I was 40 years outdated when Moses the servant of your Lord despatched me from Kadesh Barnea to
explore the terrain. And I brought him back a report in accordance with my convictions,
eight but my brothers who went up with me produced the hearts of your folks melt with dread. I, having said that,
adopted the Lord my God wholeheartedly.
9 So on that daytime Moses swore to me, ‘The terrain on which your feet have walked will be your
inheritance and that within your kids eternally, mainly because you’ve adopted the Lord my God
wholeheartedly.’
10 “Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years given that the time he
said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the desert. So right here I’m currently, eighty-five years outdated!
eleven I’m still as powerful currently as the daytime Moses despatched me out; I am just as vigorous to go out to battle
now as I was then.
twelve Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that daytime. You by yourself heard then that
the Anakites had been there and their metropolitan areas had been significant and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I’ll drive
them out just as he said.”
3 phrases from Caleb’s existence that support us give ourselves to what issues most…
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