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The title of today's post, Caleb's at Heart.

Numbers 1424, but my servant, Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed me fully,

I'll bring him into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.

Caleb, one of the 12 spies Moses sent to spy out the land, promised by God to Israel, was a bit different.

He went against the grain and made it into God's hall of difference makers.

In fact, God used this very word to describe him.

Caleb, he said, has a different spirit.

Indeed.

By describing Caleb as different,

the Lord was comparing him to ten of the other spies

who were conformists,

weak in their faith, and sadly preferred a life of slavery over fighting for freedom.

These faithless cowards affirmed that the promised land truly was as wonderful as God had said.

Unfortunately, they also pointed out,

it was ruled by giants,

protected by strong armies and filled with fortified cities.

God forgot to tell us about giants, nine feet plus in height, they opined. And as cowards often do, these ten

spies infected Israel with their fear and unbelief. To fear controlled believers, giants are bigger than God.

Ironically, the 10 fearful spies were actually leaders in Israel.

Yet they didn't possess the faith.

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