Daily Devotions
Our Grasshopper Complex
Reading for February 16th: Numbers 11-13
So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height... and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."
Numbers 13:32-33
There's a song the kids like to sing that goes like this: "My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do."
Do you believe that? Can you honestly say that your God is big, strong, and mighty and that there's nothing that he cannot do?
The children of Israel sang a song very similar to that one. When they crossed the Red Sea they sang "The Song of Moses":
"I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. The LORD is my strength and my song; and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him, The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name." (Ex 15:1-3)
They sang about God's power, majesty, and holiness. They sang about how the inhabitants of Philistia, Edom, Moab, and Canaan were all trembling and full of dread and terror because of God's marvelous works in Egypt (Ex 15:6, 7, 11, 14-15).
But somehow they had forgotten that song. When they went in to spy out the land, they forgot about the mighty warrior God who had decimated Egypt and Pharaoh's armies. They focused on their enemies instead.
The lesson is simple: Don't focus on your problems. You'll turn into a grasshopper if you do. Your enemies will see you that way as well. Focus on God. Keep your eyes on the One who has never failed his servants who called upon his mighty name.
And keep singing that song, "My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there's nothing my God cannot do!"
Sovereign Lord, our God and Father, be with your servants and defend them as they fight against the forces of evil today!
