“But the men who had gone up with him said, ’ We can’t attack those people; they are stronger than we are.’ 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 desvendants of the Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.’” - Num 13:31-33
God had promised the land of Canaan to Israel. He promised it to Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph, and Moses. But even after this long standing promise and just 2 years and 3 months after the Exodus they had forgotten the power of God and fear prevented them from moving forward. When they saw the people in the land they declared, “We seemed like grasshoppers.”
When I was given a tour of Campus Crusade they showed me Bill Bright’s office (the founder of Campus). On his desk was a plaque that said “I am not a grasshopper.” It was a reference to this passage in Numbers. The idea was that because the infinite, glorious, everlasting King of the Universe who delivered Israel from Egypt with a mighty hand and great wonders was with him, he would not look like a grasshopper in his own eyes or anyone else’s.
Take heart, friends. The Almighty King of Glory is with you. You are not a grasshopper.
