
January 28, 2024 Numbers 13 30 Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”
31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” 32 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
WORDS
Words are powerful. It is important that we guard them. It is most difficult to do this when we are tired, sick, angry, or hurt. It is only with the Spirit's help that we can do it at all! Words we speak can encourage or discourage, show love, spew hate, help or harm, etc. What we speak to/over our children can even become prophecies!
It’s interesting to note the end of the ten spies’ statement…We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.” The ten spies were looking at the natural (they were inadequate for the task), but Caleb was looking to his God and His promises. Those few sentences caused well over one million people to wander for forty years in the wilderness and miss their inheritance. Think of it! When speaking to others let us speak words of faith, love, and kindness. God can work when we do! Let’s not grieve His Holy Spirit.--LG
The tongue:
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life,
But perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.
Whoever guards his mouth and tongue
Keeps his soul from troubles.
She opens her mouth with wisdom,
And on her tongue is the law of kindness.
A word fitly spoken is like apples
of gold in settings of silver.
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