Numbers 13: Giants in the Land

Then Caleb silenced the people before Moses and said, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”
But the men who had gone up with him said, “ And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.” - Num.  13:30-33 NIV

There have always been giants in the land, giants of poverty, disease, inequality, disability, addiction, infidelity, lust, ambition, envy, gluttony, all those things which would keep us from God's promises.  We can refuse to go up against them, we can go around in circles in the desert of despair, or we can face them.  We can say, like Caleb, We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it.”  Or we can declare, like the rest of the spies,  "We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.”   Just as with the Israelites, God has given us his promise.  He goes before us.  What more do we need?  There are giants in the land, but they're nothing compared to our God.