What is it that just totally creeps you out? I have a family member that is deathly and I mean deathly afraid of millers. To the point of screaming, crying, just totally out of control, afraid of millers. I am not particularly fond of snakes or mice but I don't go to any extreme of freaking out over them by letting them have control of me and my emotions. But I can honestly say that if I'm not careful I can be like my ancestors.
I realize that the 12 leaders from the 12 tribes of Israel that were sent in to spy on the land probably weren't afraid of grasshoppers. (Yep, those "Dudes" are my ancestors and yours.) But for crying out loud, why would they compare themselves to grasshoppers???? REALLY????? Grasshoppers????
I think this afternoon what really got me was noticing the end of this verse in Numbers 13:33.
"We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them."
My mind instantly started whirling and I actually laughed. How in the world did the 10 spies reporting back to Moses and Aaron with the negative report know that they looked like grasshoppers to the Nephilim??
You see that is exactly what fear does, it cripples us and causes us to think so irrationally. Our thoughts become incredibly irrational! It causes us to buckle and not do what God has for us to do. It brings so much doubt, causes us to loose sleep and to miss the blessing that God has for us!
The next time that you begin to allow doubt to creep in just remember what Caleb and Joshua saw and walk on in to whatever it is that God has for you with determination, obedience, trust and belief!
Walking on in~~
Yolanda
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