That's some big grapes! It took two men carrying it on a pole in between them just to bring to back to camp! When God delivers on a promise He does so in grand fashion. He will exceed our expectations and the bounty will seem larger than we ever thought possible.
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, - Ephesians 3: 20 (NKJV)
But now despite the abundance in the land, ten of the spies saw the problems in their way instead of the God they served:
But the people who live there are powerful, and the cities
are fortified and very large. We even saw descendants of Anak there. The
Amalekites live in the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites live in the
hill country; and the Canaanites live near the sea and along the
There were giants in the land! And they had fortified cities! There were too many enemies to contend with. Too many obstacles to the promise. This is how we perceive our plight sometimes. We know that we have a promise from God. We know that the Bible promises us even more than we could ever ask or think of, yet we choose to focus on what our natural senses tell us. God has already warned us against this:
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. Proverbs 3: 4-5
Yet there were the ten spies; leaning on their own understanding. Dismissing God from the equation. We too can fall for this scheme of the enemy. He wants us focusing on our problems instead of our problem solver. He wants us to only see the giants preventing the promises of God in our lives instead of the power God possesses to bring to pass that which He has said He would. If you only focus on the giants then you start to shrink in size against them. Our self talk becomes defeated:
But the men who had gone up with him said, "We can't attack those people; they are stronger than we are." Numbers 13: 31
