Now these are the areas the Israelites received as an inheritance in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the tribal clans of Israel allotted to them. 2 Their inheritances were assigned by lot to the nine and a half tribes, as the Lord had commanded through Moses. 3 Moses had granted the two and a half tribes their inheritance east of the Jordan but had not granted the Levites an inheritance among the rest, 4 for Joseph’s descendants had become two tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. The Levites received no share of the land but only towns to live in, with pasturelands for their flocks and herds. 5 So the Israelites divided the land, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

6 Now the people of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh Barnea about you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh Barnea to explore the land. And I brought him back a report according to my convictions, 8 but my fellow Israelites who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt in fear. I, however, followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly. 9 So on that day Moses swore to me, ‘The land on which your feet have walked will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God wholeheartedly.’ (NIV)

People of faith live out of ”convictions” they cannot necessarily prove, but they see what others cannot, and what they see they speak.

”Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Hebrews 11:1)

What strikes me here is the negative impact unbelieving believers have on their brothers and sisters (8).

” My companions who went with me discouraged the people, but I stuck to my guns, totally with God, my God.” (The Message)

Prayer: Lord, may I be such a person of faith and conviction, that by the things I do and say I lift my fellow-believers up, rather than pull them down. Fill my heart and mouth with words of faith that build.