Joshua 11-15
One of my favorite old testament characters is Caleb. You just have to love an 85 year-old man who proclaims "Today I am eighty-five years old. I am as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could then. So give me the hill country that the Lord promised me. You will remember that as scouts we found the descendants of Anak living there in great, walled towns. But if the Lord is with me, I will drive them out of the land, just as the Lord said.”
Forty-five years earlier he was one of 12 scouts sent into the promised land to check it out. He and Joshua declared that the land was prime and that with the Lord's help they could conquer the inhabitants, but the 10 scouts were discouraged by the giants (descendants of Anak) that lived there. Now, at 85, Caleb feels the same way as he did before. As long God is with him... he can move mountains... or defeat giants.
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