Through the lens of Young adult
The twelve spies — fear and a generation lost
The most haunting line in Numbers 13 is what the ten spies said about themselves. To ourselves we seemed like grasshoppers, and we must have seemed the same to them (Num 13:33).
They projected. They assumed how big they were in their own eyes was how big they were in everyone else’s eyes. They were wrong about themselves and wrong about the giants.
Most of the limitations you carry in your twenties are not from the size of the giants. They are from the size you have decided you are. The job you don’t apply for because you assume you are not enough. The relationship you don’t pursue because you assume you would be rejected. The calling you don’t follow because you assume you are too young, too unproven, too small.
The Father did not call you a grasshopper. You did.
One small thing today: name one place where you have been assuming you are smaller than the giants. Stop. Take Caleb’s posture. The LORD is with me. Don’t be afraid. Take one step toward what fear has been keeping you out of.