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We are able vs the power of a bad report
Topic Started: Jun 15 2011, 04:38 AM (114 Views)
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And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it. But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we. And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature. And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight. (Numbers 13:30-33)

We tend to be such negative people. If someone has something bad to say, proclaiming doom and gloom or telling everyone how miserable life can be, we typically swallow that kind of message hook, line and sinker. But when someone has something positive to say, a good word, a compliment or encouragement, we’re skeptical at best. Why are we so naturally disposed to bad news? If I tell my daughter how beautiful I think she is, that lasts only until one of her brothers slights her just the tiniest amount. And then, it’s going to take weeks of encouragement before I get that same twinkle back into her eye. It’s all terribly stacked against us. This is what Caleb faced, though it is difficult to see in most English translations. Numbers 13:30 reads something like, “Let us go up at once and possess it, for we are able to overcome.” In Hebrew, words are often repeated for emphasis. What Caleb is really recorded as saying is something more like, “Ascend! Ascend! Take the Land for we are able! We are able!”
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