Pastor Bobby Massey from Life Point Church in Valley Center said something cool this past Sunday in his sermon that got me thinking…He was talking about Caleb and Joshua’s faith after scoping out the Promised Land after Israel left Egypt. Ten spies were frightened by the giants and walled cities and felt like they could not take the land God had promised them. Since Joshua and Caleb believed they could, God promised that they would live to see the Promised Land, even though that generation would die in the desert after 40 years.So, forty years later, Joshua leads Israel into the wilderness and they begin to spread over all of its region. Caleb is eager to get his own place and demands Joshua for the land that was promised him. Caleb received Hebron as his families inheritance (Joshua 14:615). In Caleb’s speech, you can hear his desperation and his hunger to finally receive the fullness of what was rightfully his. He was saying, in essence, “I’ve waited 45 years for this! I’ve walked around in sand and wilderness for 45 years! I’ve had it! I need something to drink and don’t want to wait any longer!”We get the sense that the Church in America is pregnant with something powerful from the Lord! There are revolutionaries who hear the statistics about how the great Church in America is in decline, how most church growth is transfer growth, and how man-centered it seems to be about. I get the sense that there is a deep cry happening in the hearts of God’s people, that resonates with that of Caleb, “I’ve had enough of it! Let me go to the place where His fullness dwells!”The book of Acts isn’t a chapter of our story, it is our blueprint. Does your heart ever ache when you read of the early story of Jesus’ people and compare it to what we have today? Let’s begin to cry out for God to bring us into fullness! If you feel that you heart is dying in the wilderness of “Church ianity” and you need a drink, I encourage us to pound on the door of heaven until God shows up with fires of revival!
