Above Rubies Daily Encouragement Blogs
ERADICATE THE GRASSHOPPER MENTALITY
We continue looking at the characteristics of the warhorse.
3. HIS FEARLESSNESS
Job 39:20 says: “Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper?" Never. Perish the thought. Just as this warhorse is not afraid to go into battle, even so we who call ourselves soldiers of the cross should not be afraid to go into battles against spiritual enemies. Ephesians 6:12 says: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Ten of the men who went to spy out the land of Canaan gave into a grasshopper mentality. They told the people: “And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight” (Numbers 13:33).
When they saw the giants, the fixed their eyes on what they saw instead of God. They lost their vision of the great and mighty God who brought them out of bondage from Pharaoh. They allowed the spirit of fear to put them into a state of paralysis. They got the jitterbugs.
This kind of fear does not come from God. 2 Timothy 1:7 says: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear: but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
Ten spies gave into a jittering grasshopper mentality. But not Joshua and Caleb. They were true warhorses. Listen to what these warhorses confessed about the giants: “And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it . . . Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, AND THE LORD IS WITH US: fear them not” (Numbers 13:30 and 14:9).
The brave warhorse mentality of Joshua and Caleb was completely opposite to the grasshopper mentality of the other ten spies, as well as the rest of the children of Israel whom they freaked out with their fearmongering. Read the whole scene in Numbers 13:25-33 and 14:1-12).
Men and fathers, it is only as we keep our eyes upon the greatness of our amazing God and praise and worship His awesome power that we can be delivered from fear and the grasshopper mentality. Men that have their eyes on God will encourage others to keep their eyes on God.
Grasshoppers raise grasshoppers! Remember fathers, you are not in the business of raising grasshoppers. Beware lest we allow all the corruption coming against our country to turn us into grasshoppers. On the contrary, let’s rise up with the fearlessness of the warhorse. And let’s raise children who will also become battle horses in God’s army.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
