I got this from Jeff or Liz Harshbarger - it is most likely by Jon Courson and it is beautiful! :-)
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
1 Corinthians 10:10
After being covered by the cloud and provided for by the goodness and graciousness of the Father, as the Israelites were poised to enter the Land of Promise, Moses sent 12 spies to check out the land. And although they returned with reports of its beauty, although they returned with fruit as proof of its productivity, they also returned with reports of Anakim — giants they believed were sure to squish them like bugs should they dare to enter (Numbers 13:26-33).
But there were two spies who had a different perspective. ‘Don’t rebel against the Lord,’ said Joshua and Caleb. ‘Don’t fear the people of the land for they are our bread,’ (Numbers 14:9). I love that! Caleb said, ‘These giants are bread for us. We’ll eat them up. And as a result, we’ll actually be stronger for battle.’
Forty years later, it was to an 85-year-old Caleb that Joshua said, ‘We made it, Caleb. Out of the original 3 million, it’s just you and me. Take any territory you want. It’s time to retire.’ But what does Caleb say?
Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in me that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Animism were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said. Joshua 14:12
‘Don’t give me a beach cabin, give me the mountain where giants live,’ said Caleb. ‘Why? Because I’m hungry for some bread.’
When you pray the Lord’s prayer, ‘Give us this day our daily bread,’ think Anakim. You see, we complain and murmur, ‘Why is this trial happening?’ Why that? Why not the other?’ when in reality, the very situations or people about which we murmur are those through which God wants to strengthen us. That which seems so big and so intimidating are Anakim — and it is the wise man or woman who, like Caleb, says ‘You’ve let them cross my path, Lord, therefore they must be there to make me stronger.’
Can you imagine how different our homes would be if we really believed that the trials which come our way, the giants which loom before us are actually beneficial to us if we would eat them up in faith? ‘More bills?’ we’d say, ‘Great! Keep them coming. Another rejection notice? Alright!’
Most will die murmuring in the wilderness. ‘If God loves me, why doesn’t He...?’ or ‘How come this giant is marching towards me?’ But there will be those — and I pray I might be one and you might be the other — who will say, ‘Giants? I smell bread. Pass the butter!’
