My inspiration from Old Testment 2

 

In the chapter 9 of Deuteronomy, The Israel people were going to cross the Jordan River and enter Canaan, but the mighty giants had already lived there, and they built very tall walls surrounding the place!

This plan would be impossible to accomplish in common sense, so the pastor said it is important to understand that people cannot depend on the strength of themselves to enter Canaan, and the only way to make it is to rely on the God. The task is impossible for us to do because our vision and ability are all very limited, but the god knows everything in universe from the past to the future, so he has already planned every details for us to achieve the goals as difficult as entering Canaan!

The pastor also said those giants in Canaan are the bias in our mind due to the bad memories. We were too afraid of getting hurt again, therefore we have lost the courage to be ourselves and pursue our dreams. Just like going to Canaan, we cannot overcome our mental block by our own effort. Instead, we need to see through the limitation of ourselves, understand only the God can control everything, let the spirit of the God reside in our heart, and then we will be able to leave all our bias behind and start a whole new life with joy and happiness!

Deuteronomy 9:1-6
9:1          Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;
9:2          A people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, of whom you have knowledge and of whom it has been said, All are forced to give way before the sons of Anak.
9:3          Be certain then today that it is the Lord your God who goes over before you like an all-burning fire; he will send destruction on them, crushing them before you; and you will send them in flight, putting an end to them quickly, as the Lord has said.
9:4          And after the Lord has sent them in flight from before you, say not in your heart, Because of my righteousness the Lord has given me this land; when it is because of their evil-doing that the Lord is driving these nations out before you.
9:5          Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
9:6          Be certain then that the Lord your God is not giving you this good land as a reward for your righteousness; for you are a stiff-necked people.




Numbers 14:1-9
14:1          Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.
14:2          And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!
14:3          Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?
14:4          And they said to one another, Let us make a captain over us, and go back to Egypt.
14:5          Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.
14:6          And Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, two of those who had been to see the land, giving signs of grief,
14:7          Said to all the children of Israel, This land which we went through to see is a very good land.
14:8          And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
14:9          Only, do not go against the Lord or go in fear of the people of the land, for they will be our food; their strength has been taken from them and the Lord is with us: have no fear of them.


Deuteronomy 1:25-33
1:25          And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.
1:26          But going against the order of the Lord your God, you would not go up:
1:27          And you made an angry outcry in your tents, and said, In his hate for us the Lord has taken us out of the land of Egypt, to give us up into the hands of the Amorites for our destruction.
1:28          Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.
1:29          Then I said to you, Have no fear of them.
1:30          The Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting for you, and will do such wonders as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
1:31          And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.
1:32          But for all this, you had no faith in the Lord your God,
1:33          Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.