Joshua 14:10-14
"And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.” Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.
Caleb the son of Jephunneh was a man among men. He was strong and he used his strength to pursue God and to fell giants. He was as strong at 85 as he was at 40 and employed it for going out to war and for going to and fro back at home. He used his strength to serve his people and his God and in all boldness inquired, "Give me this hill!" He asked his commander in chief for permission, but made the request already possessing all the faith required to accomplish the task. He wanted to fell large men in large cities surrounded by even larger walls because the God he served was large. God was big to Caleb, so Caleb applied himself to big things. And he was blessed by his commander in chief in heaven above and on earth beside.
Caleb, son of Jephunneh, man of God, man among men. May God raise up more like him in our generation and may giants fall as God's glory falls on us as we lift up praise to His Name.
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