I have come to understand something ...

I have come to understand something....
I have come to understand that our land of giants in really our promised land....

I have been reflecting on the story of how as a family we stood in our desert and looked toward our promised land and were TERRIFIED to walk into it.
To us the road ahead was full of giants.
I wonder if I had been sent into the promised land, whether I would have come back with the faith and trust of Caleb or whether I too would have shrunk back in fear?

I have to admit there were so many times when I wanted to run away!
I wanted to turn and hide in the comfort of the desert that we knew.
Although the desert was dry and empty, it was what we knew.

And yet we did walk into our land of giants. we walked step by step and at times felt that we were more in the land of defeat than the promised land.
We felt the battle of overcoming every giant that came against us.
We cried as we once again, awoke to battle another giant.
And then it happened....

We began to see the giants crumble,
We began to see the victory,
We began to see the milk and honey of this season.
We saw that in this land of giants, we found our promised land!!

I think that the steps that took us into our land of giants were the very steps that saw us walk closer and closer to the heart of our God.
It saw us walk totally and wholely dependant on our Heavenly Father.
It saw us live on the very Word of God
It saw us understand what it means to surrender all into the providing arms of God

We walked with fear and uncertainty into a land of giants and with each step learnt what it meant to walk with trust, courage and hope.

We dont expect our promised land to be a set of circumstances that sees us living in the very essence of comfort and ease, but we now understand that our promised land in indeed a state of relationship and understanding.
It is the deep intimacy that sees us walk every step and breath surrendered in trust to our Heavenly Father.
The promised land in the place where despite our giants all we know and live is the hope and joy that is found in being able to say "not my will but Yours be done" with a big fat smile on our faces.