Joshua 14:10 - Forerunner Commentary

Joshua 14:10

8 Nevertheless ^amy brethren who went up with me made the¹ heart of the people melt, but I wholly ^bfollowed the Lord my God.

9 So Moses swore on that day, saying, ^a‘Surely the land ^bwhere your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’

10 And now, behold, the Lord has kept me ^aalive, ^bas He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel¹ wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.

11 ^aAs yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both ^bfor going out and for coming in.

12 Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how ^athe Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. ^bIt may be that the Lord will be with me, and ^cI shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said.”

13 And Joshua ^ablessed him, ^band gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.

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Again, we do not see Caleb coming to Joshua with arrogance but with confidence, trusting that God is going to stand up for what He said. Believing that God also would help them and drive out the inhabitants of the land. Now, this belief was not based on his own strength but it was a total confidence in God. You know, at this point, Caleb is 85 years old. Turn to read verse 10 and 11.

I do not think he was boasting. I do not know if he had the same strength as an 85-year-old as a 40-year-old man, but I know how it is as you get older: your mind does not change. Your body changes, but your mind does not change. But he acknowledged he knew what God had promised him. But he also knew that it was not because of his strength. It was because he knew that it was his God that would preserve him.

Excerpted from Caleb: Wholeheartedly Following God Exemplified by Ted E. Bowling

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