“OUR GUARANTEE OF VICTORY” In Moses’ last words to the Children of Israel, he reminded them of all that God that had done for them over the years. The people were going to face many challenges and battles in the days ahead. They would need their faith to keep their courage. When they first came to the border of Canaan, years before, the ten spies gave a bad report; and as a result, the people refused to even enter the land because of their fears. Now they were going to do what their fathers had failed to do, and they would need courage to overcome their fears—God’s presence would give them that no matter what they faced. There is an amazing contrast between the first group of spies and the second. The first ten spies said the giants of the land viewed them as grasshoppers. Yet Rahab told the two spies Joshua sent, “Your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you” (Joshua 2:9). Charles Spurgeon said, “The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deaths in fearing one.” We should not let anything deter us from doing right, especially fears that we create where no reason for them exists. Courage does not come from the absence of struggle, but from the presence of God. What God told Israel then, He tells us now, “Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, He it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsake thee” (Deut 31:4–6).
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 13:08:00 +0000
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