Why is it that some Christains have so much success in life and others seen to struggle all the time? Why is it that some Churches are growing and growing and others are not? Why is it that in some Churches there are people being healed and in others there is just talk of healing? Why is it that some Churches are able to accept people as they are and some won't even let you in, if you aren't dressed right? Why, because some Christains and Churches don't look at the people around them but they look at the places that God wants to take them!! They don't think about what might happen, they just believe in what God said "will" happen!! They are not Grasshopper Christains!
Grasshopper Christains settle for less. They are satified with just getting by and not going to the boss and ask for a raise! I'm just a grasshopper in the bosses sight! They settle for a small membership when Jesus said in Mt.28:19 to "teach all nations" They are like grasshoppers to the world that really need to hear the Word of God! Grasshopper Christains just expect the pastor to pray for healings instead of the whole Church standing and agreeing in the most powerful name of JESUS!! They look at the disease as being bigger than the Word of God. Grasshopper Christains will look just at the outside of a person and not the inside. They talk about the way someone dresses and not how they can help to dress that person. They make the person look small to them , oh yeah, like a grasshopper! There are too many Grasshopper Christains and Minsters in God's Church today!! Too many of us are willing to settle for less when God wants us and His Church to have more!!
The passage today shows us two very different ways we can live as Christains. We can live as grasshoppers like most of the "spies" did, they lived in fear and was focusing on themselves and not on the Word and promises of God. God had promised to give them the land already but they focused on the "giants" instead of the Giant Word Of God!!! They wanted the easy way out. They were willing to settle for less. That's just what Grasshopper Christains do.
Joshua and Caleb on the other hand didn't focus on themselves or the "giants", but focused and believed in the Word and promises of God. They believed that if God was going to give them the land ,surely He'd give them victory over the "giants" too.
In God's Word there are many things He has promised and even given to us,yet we have just settled for less. We don't like dealing with the big issues that are facing God's Church today. It's time we stop being grasshoppers and start being "more than conquerors through him that loves us"(Romans8:37)God wants us to live in victory and wants us act like it too! God doesn't want no Grasshopper Christains, He wants some Giant Killing Christains!!
Which one are you??
"Father,help us to not be afaid of change, for sometimes that very change, can be your blessing for us. Help us to not just settle for less on our jobs and at our Churches and even in our homes. We love you and want to do your will but we can't do it alone, we need your help. Make us into Giant Killing Christains today!! In Jesus mighty name,AMEN"
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