| | | Click HERE for information to ensure that you receive every day's issue of Daily Encounter and so it won't get blocked. | Please recommend Daily Encounter to a friend. Click HERE and then on "Send E-Mail" button. | | | To receive the TEXT edition of Daily Encounter without pictures rather than this HTML edition with pictures: Click HERE. | | | Tuesday, February 18, 2014 Never Too Old ... Part I "So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 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. Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said."1 When the Israelites were conquering the Promised Land that God had given to them, Caleb said to Joshua, "Give me this hill country to conquer!" Caleb was eighty-five years of age at the time. (Admittedly, they lived a lot longer back then.) If God had given the Israelites the Promised Land, how come they had to fight for it? Because God's giving it to them made it possible for them to conquer it. Had God handed it to them on a silver platter, they never would have learned to trust him nor become responsible and mature individuals. Caleb achieved his goal because he knew precisely what God's purpose was for both Israel and himself, and he didn't allow his age to hold him back. If we, too, want to achieve something worthwhile with our life, regardless of our age, it is imperative that we, too, know what our God-given life purpose is—and act accordingly. Suggested prayer: "Dear God, I'm willing and wanting to be used by You. Help me to fulfill my God-given life purpose. Please make it plain what You want me to be and do. Thank You for hearing and answering my prayer. Gratefully, in Jesus's name, amen." 1. Joshua 14:10-12 (NIV). <:))))>< NOTE: If you would like to accept God's forgiveness for all your sins and His invitation for a full pardon Click HERE. Or if you would like to re-commit your life to Jesus Christ, please click HERE to note this. |
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