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What Made Caleb So Young At Eighty-Five

by Jerry Ousley  
1/13/2017 / Christian Living


            For the last couple of weeks we’ve been talking about Caleb and how that at eighty-five he felt as strong and young as he did at forty. He had asked Joshua to give him a mountain that still had to be conquered as his inheritance in the Promised Land. You can find this story in Joshua 14:6-14. I continue to be amazed at his request. It is so typical of our own spiritual life and daily battle to obtain our prize at the finish line – Namely making Heaven our eternal home.

 

            I stood up to a bully once. I was fifteen years old and skinny as a rail fence. This fellow, who was on the basketball team, had been pestering me. He stood about a foot and a half taller than me and was strong enough to pick me up and break me in two. But I had taken all I could take and stood up to him. He told me to meet him at a certain place after school to settle the matter. Now I know that this looked like a slaughter. There was no way in the world that I could take this guy.  But I had had it. I went to the place we had agreed on, a little shaky in the knees by now I might add (fear has a way of creeping into the picture when you have some time to think about the situation). I fully expected to get pounded. Was I ever happy when the other guy didn’t show up! Of course at fifteen I had to make my brags, but inside I was more relieved than a man just untangled from a barbed wire fence!

 

            Caleb wasn’t afraid to stand up to his bullies. He took his stand, made his claim and conquered his mountain even though he was eighty-five years old. As I thought about his story I wondered, “What made Caleb so young at eighty-five?” I believe it was several things. 

 

            First of all I believe that it was his positive attitude. He could have conformed and been like the other ten spies when they had scouted out the Promised Land. But he chose to be different. He chose to be positive. “We can take the land,” he said. Even when he knew that they would face all those people he knew that this group of ex-slaves could win.

 

            He knew this because he also knew that they had God on their side. No matter what was coming God had promised that He would deliver the inhabitants of the land into their hands if they would only keep His commandments and move on His word.

 

            Then he also kept himself in shape for what he knew was coming. I believe Caleb had spotted that mountain way back when he was forty years old spying out the land. He knew what he wanted and he made preparation to be ready when the time came.

 

            We too need to have these qualities in our own spiritual battle. Our goal may not be to take a literal mountain but we still have mountains in our lives – things that seem insurmountable. We need to keep a positive attitude even when things aren’t going so well. Just because Caleb was allowed to go into the Promised Land he still had to stay with the group wandering around in the wilderness for forty years. Things hadn’t always been good for him but he stayed in shape for what God had promised.

 

            We’ve got to have a non-doubting vision of God. Can we trust Him? Will He stay true to His Word? You can bet your bottom dollar that He will if we’ll just do our part – Keep believing His Word.

 

            When we know what we want then we’ve got to make preparation for it. If we want to be a lawyer in life we’ve got to train and know what we’re talking about. We’ve got to make preparation. We can do it – but only through Jesus Christ! So how young are you?

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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