Second Time's The Charm

And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us. Joshua 2:24

I'm kind of surprised Joshua sent spies into the land. Think about it: he, better than anyone, knew what happened the last time they did that. He was one of them, after all. Maybe that's why he only sent two...since only two got it right forty years prior. He probably wasn't very keen on waiting another forty years to enter. So he selected only two men, sent them in, and they brought back this report so very opposite from what his fellows had done four decades earlier. What had changed? Had the situation in Canaan changed? No, I doubt all the strong, valiant, warrior tribes had moved out in one generation. The task was just as daunting as it had been for their fathers. Had God changed? No, He was the same Yaweh who had delivered them from Pharaoh, guided them through the wilderness, and provided all along the way...and then taken care of them for the next forty years, too. He was just as powerful before as He was now. Yet these two men came back with a completely different spiel. The difference was that they looked for the possible, not the impossible. They realized what could be and recognized that their Lord was a God of "can", not of "cannot".

Circumstances in life are often daunting and intimidating. We run into walls that are too high to climb, too thick to breach, too wide to go around. But look a little harder--God just may have already delivered it into your hands. You just have to keep pressing along, and those walls will crumble before you.