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Still we wait upon the Lord, ever faithful that His hand will manifest in a mighty move. I don’t know what it will look like or why He’s played things out the way He has, but He never fails and He isn’t about to start.
In a gathering this week, the group noted a weariness that seems very pervasive at this moment. It’s as if a spirit of weariness has taken root in our culture, in our church and in our homes. Have you felt it?
I likened my perspective to how Caleb must have felt at Sinai – thankful for the presence of God and the promise, yet frustrated that he’d personally seen the land of promise with his own eyes and had been ready to claim it forty years prior. Now, I don’t know that Caleb was frustrated… but it sure makes sense to me.
Yet, we see in Joshua that when the time had come, Caleb was not diminished in the slightest and his faith was as strong as ever:
Now, assign me this hill country that the Lord promised me at that time! No doubt you heard then that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. But assuming the Lord is with me, I will conquer them, as the Lord promised.” Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron. So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day because he remained loyal to the Lord God of Israel. (Hebron used to be called Kiriath Arba. Arba was a famous Anakite.) Then the land was free of war.
Joshua 14: 12 – 15
I told the group that I felt as though I continued to march around the mountain, yet just to the side I could see the promise and that I felt the heaviness of that longing and that it was sometimes hard not to break ranks and charge that hill.
Of course, that’s not how it works. God will move and He will move in a mighty way, bringing all of the faithful into the fulfillment of promises held for years… decades even. In the end, I told them what I am posting here today – I will stay right here, sitting on this rock, the rock, until such time as He moves. I do not understand the apparent delay, but then I don’t have to – I just have to be faithful and trust Him.
In the end, I guess if there’s one thing I’d like you to take away from this post, it’s this; Be a Caleb. When the time comes, we will charge into the land of promise and giants will fall.
Until next time,
שלום עליכם – Shalom Aleichem – Peace Be Upon You