Today’s Devotion
Topic: Do Not Magnify Your Challenge Above Your God!
Text: Numbers 13: 33.
There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak the giant); and we were like grasshoppers in OUR OWN SIGHT, and so we were in THEIR SIGHT.”Amen
The Israelites on their way to Canaan camped in the wilderness of Paran, and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan” (Num 13:2).
Moses did as the Lord had commanded, he sent them, all of them who were heads of the children of Israel. Majority of them came back hailing the strength and abilities of the enemy and reducing themselves to nonentities who do not stand a chance.
They called the enemy “giants” and saw themselves as “grasshoppers in their sight”. The question here is ‘how could the Israelites have known the enemy’s perspective about them especially when the enemy hadn’t yet declared any such thing’? Unless by their own analysis of how they think the enemy sees them, right?
No wonder they first saw themselves as grasshoppers and then based on that point of view, concluded that the enemy assessed them as such.
Beloved, never despise or belittle yourself before your challenge, lest it gains advantage and dislocates you. Even when the challenge you face blatantly announces certain undeniable advantages over you. Learn to assess all things in the light of God’s Word, and you will see that nothing is beyond our God.
When David met Goliath at about the age of seventeen, he looked to God and refused to be intimidated by the sheer size and battle experience of the giant.
As he drew closer to David, Goliath clearly understood how low the young boy had reduced him to. “He said to David, “am I a dog that you come to me with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.” (1 Sam 17: 43).
David on the other hand, had reduced Goliath to nothing not because he trusted in his own abilities, but because he trusted in the abilities of his God. He said to the giant, ” You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defiled” (1 Sam 17: 45).
Precious One, next time you are confronted with a challenge too high than you can handle, compare that mountain to the abilities of your God and you will see that it doesn’t stand a chance. Then your courage will be boosted, urging you on to victory.
It’s a new working week now. Begin to pray therefore. Ask for a divine desire to study and apply God’s Word in everything you do, so that your faith in God’s abilities can grow. For He that is in us, is greater than he that is in the world (1John 4:4).
Meanwhile, the next time a huge challenge knocks your door, declare by faith the prophetic word in Zechariah 4: 7a, say to the problem: “who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel (or insert your name) you shall become a plain” in Jesus name.
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