Seize the Moment – Day 681

Caleb, a Wholehearted Man!

Joshua 14

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, January 27.

 

Are you willing to live wholeheartedly for God even if you must wait a long time to receive God’s reward for your faithfulness?

 

After 45 years of waiting, Joshua 14:13-14 was a significant moment in the life of Caleb, the faithful spy who stood for God and received the promise to survive the forty years of wilderness wanderings, and to find rest in the inheritance of the Promised Land:
 
“So Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. Therefore, Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day, because he followed the Lord God of Israel fully.”

 

Caleb was forty years old when he was sent out to spy the land. Upon returning, after forty days, he gave his faithful report to Moses in Numbers 13:30,
 
“We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it.”
 
From their generation only Joshua and Caleb were allowed to enter it, but even that promise took a long time to unfold, as Caleb reminded Joshua in Joshua 14:10-12, when he made his request for God’s promise to be honored:

 

Now behold, the Lord has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; and now behold, I am eighty-five years old today. … Now then, give me this hill country about which the Lord spoke on that day.

 

Though rejected by man, Caleb was accepted by God and continued to live a faithful life. Caleb was a wholehearted man who followed God fully! Paul exhorts us to do the same in Colossians 3:23,
 
“Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men.”

 

Seize the moment and be a wholehearted person!

God bless you!

 
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