And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God gives us. Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God. – Deuteronomy 1:25-26, Amplified Bible (AMP)

What good land has God promised you that you are too fearful to take? 

The Israelite spies saw the Promised Land with their own eyes, and they admitted, at first, how precious a land it was. But their fear of the inhabitants of the land – giants of great stature and strength – overcame their trust in God. The spies’ lack of faith in God not only provoked the people into rebellion, it provoked God into preventing the rebellious generation from ever entering into the Promised Land. 

Fear is a strong emotion, and God knows this. But as we grow in The Lord, He expects us to learn that He is more powerful than any source of fear, and just as He has already overcome the world, He has already overcome what we fear – if we will but trust Him for the victory.

When riddled with fear, remember the two things from Deuteronomy 1:30-31 that the Israelites failed to grasp:

1. Verse 30 (AMP): “The Lord your God Who goes before you, He will fight for you just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes.” At the moment of decision, the Israelites failed to remember past examples of God’s miraculous deliverance. We ought not make the same mistake. If we’ve been Christians for any length of time, God has provided for us in special ways, and we have recognized it when He has. Since God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, we need to remember that the same God who was strong enough to rescue us then is strong enough to rescue us now. 

2. Verse 31 (AMP): “And in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God bore you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.” God wants to carry us, like a father carries a young child, throughout every event in our lives. Whether those events are pleasant or horrific, God will carry us if we let Him, and when we let Him, we have nothing to fear. If we demand to walk our lives under our own strength, however, then we have plenty to fear. There are many pressures in life much, much stronger than we are, and if we face them alone, our fear of failure will turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

The victorious Christian life boils down to one thing: do the opposite of what the Israelites did in Deuteronomy 1:32. Deuteronomy 1:32 (AMP) states:

Yet in spite of this word you did not believe (trust, rely on, and remain steadfast to) the Lord your God.

Instead of failing to trust, choose to trust in, to rely on, and to remain steadfast in your faith in God. If you do, you’ll be able to face the giants boldly instead of running away from them in fear. 

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