The Israelites remain skeptical, and God gets extremely angry: Numbers 14:27How long will this wicked community grumble against me? The question is which one are you? A naysayer will allow what is big to become irrationally bigger. John 3:31. Numbers 13:32-33 tells us the whole story of the mistakes made just this side of glory but to sum it all up quickly, THEY REFUSED TO HAVE FAITH THAT GOD WAS IN CONTROL.. God gives it to us as He brings our dead hearts to life in Christ. Are we good? The Unconquerable Love of God Well, I am glad to know you are not a grasshopper, but our Bible story today is about some people who thought they were like grasshoppers. They were perceived as giants. Your email address will not be published. Those big people in Canaan did not say to the spies, "Hey, you little fellows look like grasshoppers to us.". Please add your name to the petition/email campaign to protect the Sumarins here. We thank You for Your rich kindness, even as we see You patiently bearing, patiently bearing us, patiently teaching us in the school of hardknocks, in the school of discipline, Father, always with Your intention to bear us up and to bear us to Yourself. Down deep, do you really believe that God is a loving God? God had made them giant-killers, but they chose to see themselves as mere grasshoppers. This allows them to feel the vibrations of other grasshoppers. We are like grasshoppers in their sight, and the are like giants.". Why is the Lord bringing us to this land to fall by the sword? His promises are true. Thats in their background; they can remember those things. The passage says they saw the descendants of Anak there. WHY DO WE DO THAT? Sitting next to her lemonade stand/office, Lucy prepares to offer her sage advice, When we limit the power of God in our life to accomplish the impossible, To save items to a SermonFolder, please sign in to your account. That just makes them a bigger target. We think Gods thoughts. Do you hear your own heartbeat? asks the master. They saw deliverance at the Red Sea through which they crossed on dry ground. Our Torah portion says: In our own eyes, we were like grasshoppers, and so we were in their eyes as well! Says the Midrash: I take no objection to your saying In our own eyes, we were like grasshoppers, but I take offense when you say, and so we were in their eyes as well! How do you know how I made you look to them? As people appear to God looking down from the heavens, so the Israelites looked to the existing inhabitants of the promised land.