Lessons from Caleb

God gives strength to the aged and also to the young,

if he said he will renew our youth like an eagle, then we are meant to still be bearing fruit at our old age. We should still be strong enough to work or go to war like Caleb in Joshua 14:6- 12

"Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God. And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’ 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."

Lessons from Caleb
1. For us to be old, strong and still be fruitful; we have to start following the lord from the days of our youth.

2. Shun people that live and walk in fear contrary to what God has said.

3. Never forget God's promises to you, if possible write it down, so you will remember them, no matter the length of time.

4. Always share your testimony of where God has brought you from to everyone so that they may know how powerful your God is.

5. Always remember to give God all the glory, praising him for all he has done.
Then you will be like a tree beside the river that bears fruit in and out of season.

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