Don’t Ever Forget the Promise Made to You by Ruby E. Powell

Have you ever heard the saying, “A promise made is a promise kept”.  When someone makes a promise to you, you trust that the person will keep the promise. Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t; howeve,r in Joshua 14:6-14 Caleb went to Joshua to remind him of the promise that God had made to them 40 years prior.  Joshua and Caleb were two of twelve spies that were sent out to scout out the land that God had promised them.  Of the twelve spies, Joshua and Caleb were the only two that had confidence in the promise of God; the other ten spies were only confident in their own human abilities based on what they saw.  Not only did they not feel confident in God’s promise but they caused the rest of the inhabitants to also fear.  As a result of that report, the children of Israel wandered for 40 years in the wilderness until they had all died out.  God preserved Joshua and Caleb because of their belief in the promise made to the children of Israel.  

This is Caleb talking to Joshua and reminding him of the promise (read the entire account in Joshua 14:6-8):

⁹ So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.

¹⁰ “Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! ¹¹ I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. ¹² Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day.

Have you ever thought to yourself or even said to yourself, “I’m too old to do __________ “ or “I’m too tired to ____________” (you fill in the blank). There are three key points in this scripture, 1) God made a promise, 2) Caleb and Joshua followed the Lord wholeheartedly, 3) God preserved Caleb’s strength because of the promise and his obedience.

So don’t ever forget a promise that God made to you!  If He said it, He will do it because He can’t lie. Just because the promise was delayed for 45 years, it doesn’t mean that promise will not come to past.  Delay does not mean denial!! Hold on to the promise of God and follow Him wholeheartedly so that you will received the promise!

Ruby E. Powell