Both, they and we, are bounded by Gods promise to do good to those who belong to Him. Who Are We? The Three Lessons of the Grasshopper - We Said Go Travel But theres another thing we do as well. So, he would dig some more. What kind of people are we? read more, Scripture: The writer of Hebrews sees that same thing. Fear is keeping you from your Promised Land. We mine Gods Word for what He has promised. As he understood Goliath, an imposing man, a terrifying man, but a man! Would that we had died in this wilderness! Hear us, as we make our prayer in Jesus name, amen. Numbers 13:1-33. Sermon - We Seemed Like Grasshoppers (Caleb & The Promise Land) them saying, "We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them" (13:33). I have heard the complaints of these grumbling Israelites. The 2018 season of excavation at a Late Roman synagogue at Huqoq revealed more fascinating mosaics, including this one referencing Numbers 13:23: two Israelite spies sent by Moses to scout out the land of Canaan carrying a pole with a cluster of grapes. His perspective is worth looking at as we close. Just as surely as there are grasshoppers in the earth there are giants. It doesnt take but one or two doubt-casters to get that ball rolling. They walked on dry ground through the Red Sea and were fed manna and quail from heaven, given water from a rock and god had even taken this ragtag bunch of nobodies and made them into a great army defeating armies of other kings. Gods love is a sovereign, everlasting love. read more, Scripture: For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. Jesus, in His last few hours with His disciples, John 14, says this, Let not your hearts be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them.