What Do You See in the Clouds?

“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.”

Numbers 14:30

Have you ever been driving along with a passenger and you look up at the clouds and see something in them and say:

“Doesn’t that cloud look like a cow?”

Then the passenger looks up and says:

“I don’t see a cow, I see a soldier!”

You both looked up at the same cloud but each of you saw something entirely different.

The same was true a couple of thousand years ago when Moses sent twelve men to spy out the land God had promised to the Israelites.

You probably know the rest of the story.

Ten of the twelve men saw defeat and danger.

Only two, Joshua and Caleb, saw the victory through God that was theirs to be had.

Why the difference?

It was in their expectations each had of the power of God to deliver them.

Joshua and Caleb well remembered the hand of God delivering them from the Egyptians and had no doubt that God could do it again.

The other twelve had this report –

“We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.” 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.”

Their expectation was of a God impotent against the inhabitants of the land.

In their mind, what God had done before He could not or would not do again.

The next time you look at a seemingly impossible situation in your life, examine your expectations of the outcome.

Are you expecting God to keep His promises to you?