Small In Our Own Eyes

Numbers 13:33 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.

Exodus 23:20, 27 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared...... I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

There is a place that God has prepared for us in Him.  As we progress toward it, He has promised to go before us and to keep us on the way to that place. 

When the Israelites got to the edge of the land that God had promised to them, they focused on the giants instead of God's promise and the good things in the land.  When they perceived the giants in the way they did, they became less in their own eyes than God said they were. They did not see themselves as the victorious warriors God said they were. God said that He would go before them and would defeat their enemies.  They had seen God's power demonstrated over and over again and yet, failed to believe God.

When we see ourselves as small compared to the giants God has said we are already victorious over, the enemy will pounce on that.  Then we come into agreement with our enemy and he is magnified in our minds until we are completely paralyzed and kept from moving into our promised land. 

We need to believe God and look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.  Much of our battle is within our own minds. 

2 Corinthians 10:4-5  (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) ⁵ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;