the rest of the story... :)
Having said all that yesterday about wanting to be another Caleb... here is the rest of the story. I mean... the Caleb thing with me was not a new thing... been talking about this for a couple years... what was new was this great week of exercise... I felt young again... renewed vigor... renewed strength.., so it got me going again about Caleb.
A few days later, I was reading a little daily thing I get by T. Austin Sparks called "Open Windows"... my friend Bodie had been sending me these writings from time to time over the past couple years...and I discovered that the things he was saying 60 or 70 years ago were confirming all the things the Lord has been showing us these past 10 years. So...I finally decided it was time to subscribe for myself... what a great decision that turned out to be. Especially this one I pasted in below....it came in right after asking the Lord once again to make me His Caleb.
" Caleb, like Paul, and Paul, like Caleb, stood against the more general course of things amongst the Lord’s people. The majority were content with going so far as to the inheritance, possessing so much, and there staying and settling down. An unfinished course, a curtailed spiritual advance, an accepting of something less than what God had appointed and intended. The majority took that course, but Caleb was never content and he stood against the majority just as he had always stood against a majority that did not represent God’s full mind...
Caleb could not accept the popular voice, his heart was too set upon the Lord. He wholly followed the Lord, not the popular and general standard of Christian life. We may say that Caleb was the very embodiment of all that God meant the whole people to be. When you see Caleb you see what God wished all Israel to be, but all Israel did not come to the standard of Caleb. But the Lord gets in a Caleb the satisfaction of His heart. The Lord realizes His full thought in a Caleb, in the same way as He does in a Paul."
I read that and just turned to mush.
Things like this meet us wherever we are in the journey. They will be interpreted from that particular place... hopefully showing us that there is always yet another place to get to in Him.. They are meant to keep us pursuing more and more of Him.... Not to show us that somehow we have at last arrived.
I sincerely hope that more and more of God's people will be prompted by that call to be one of His Caleb's ... One of those who hearts are "set upon the Lord" ... another of those that "wholly follow the Lord".
:)
A few days later, I was reading a little daily thing I get by T. Austin Sparks called "Open Windows"... my friend Bodie had been sending me these writings from time to time over the past couple years...and I discovered that the things he was saying 60 or 70 years ago were confirming all the things the Lord has been showing us these past 10 years. So...I finally decided it was time to subscribe for myself... what a great decision that turned out to be. Especially this one I pasted in below....it came in right after asking the Lord once again to make me His Caleb.
" Caleb, like Paul, and Paul, like Caleb, stood against the more general course of things amongst the Lord’s people. The majority were content with going so far as to the inheritance, possessing so much, and there staying and settling down. An unfinished course, a curtailed spiritual advance, an accepting of something less than what God had appointed and intended. The majority took that course, but Caleb was never content and he stood against the majority just as he had always stood against a majority that did not represent God’s full mind...
Caleb could not accept the popular voice, his heart was too set upon the Lord. He wholly followed the Lord, not the popular and general standard of Christian life. We may say that Caleb was the very embodiment of all that God meant the whole people to be. When you see Caleb you see what God wished all Israel to be, but all Israel did not come to the standard of Caleb. But the Lord gets in a Caleb the satisfaction of His heart. The Lord realizes His full thought in a Caleb, in the same way as He does in a Paul."
I read that and just turned to mush.
Things like this meet us wherever we are in the journey. They will be interpreted from that particular place... hopefully showing us that there is always yet another place to get to in Him.. They are meant to keep us pursuing more and more of Him.... Not to show us that somehow we have at last arrived.
I sincerely hope that more and more of God's people will be prompted by that call to be one of His Caleb's ... One of those who hearts are "set upon the Lord" ... another of those that "wholly follow the Lord".
:)
