I was reading yesterday in Numbers and God gave me some great revelation that helped me to put things in perspective as TJ and I are starting on a new adventure in our life. God told Moses to send a group of men out to spy out the land that he was GIVING to the Children of Israel, the Promise Land. They spent 40 days there and when they came back they gave a report(Numbers 13: 27) “It was a land flowing with milk & honey, there were also giants in the land.”

Among the men who went to spy out the land were Caleb & Joshua, Caleb reported “let us go up at once and take possession, for we are WELL ABLE to overcome it” he was confident and I believe he was seeing the situation with eyes of Faith. However some of the other men who were with him were looking at it completely different. They gave the children of Israel a bad report saying “The land we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw are men of great stature, there are giants and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight and we in their sight.”

I started to look at how different these perspectives were. You see God had already promised them this land, it was theirs. Caleb was seeing the situation with the correct perspective that they were WELL ABLE to overcome them and the other men were seeing the situation from a Fear perspective, forgetting that God had already promised them the land, they just had to take action.

The next few scriptures were very big for me. (Numbers 14: 6-9) Joshua and Caleb were frustrated with the situation because the bad report from the other men instilled fear in the children of Israel. Here was their response “If the Lord delights in us, then he will bring us into the land which flows with Milk & Honey, only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them!” Joshua and Caleb knew what God promised them and that is what they focused on, they did not see and focus on the giants in the Land. Circumstances don’t matter when God tells you to do something.

What is the promise that God has given you? Are you focusing on the problems instead of the promise? When God makes a promise and shows you what he wants to do in you and through you he will always provide what we need. God was giving the children of Israel an amazing land but all they could see was the obstacles they had to overcome.

Are you seeing through eyes of Faith or eyes of Fear? As TJ and I are moving on to the call that God has for us and his promises for us, it is easy to see the obstacles but I know that focusing on the promise helps me to see through the eyes of Faith instead of Fear.