The Attitude of an Overcomer

Numbers 13:1-33

Monday, 04 May 2026

Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” -Numbers 13:30

God’s people were at the threshold of entering their Promised Land, and God spoke to Moses to send out men, one each from the 12 tribes to explore the land and bring report. They were asked to observe the people; to see how good the land is for cultivation and also bring back the produce of the land. 

After 40 days, the men returned and reported what they had seen and showed the fruit they had taken from the land. They said indeed it is a land flowing with milk and honey but the people in it were powerful and their cities fortified and there were giants! So the majority of them spread a bad report amongst the Israelites giving an adverse view, discouraging the people— “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.” (V.31). In fact, these men saw themselves as grasshoppers in the sight of those giants! (v.33)

Now from the twelve, Caleb saw things differently and said, as the key verse reads- “Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.” Here was one with adifferent approach, not a defeatist one but an overcoming attitude! When the whole of Israel listened to the bad report and started to grumble and complain against Moses, there stood out Joshua and Caleb the other two men who saw the LORD who was with them to give them victory! In the following chapter we see them speak: “If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, ‘a land which flows with milk and honey.’ Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them.” (Num.14:8-9). They might seem as grasshoppers in front of the giants, but the Mighty One of Israel was with them to conquer the land! So why fear?

But we know from the record that follows that the people chose to go with the unbelieving majority and failed to put their faith in God who had miraculously delivered them from Pharaoh and brought them thus far, meeting their every need with signs and wonders performed in their midst—yet they could not trust God to bring them into their promised land. So the Lord’s anger came upon them and they had to spend the next 40 years wandering in the desert until a whole generation passed away; only Joshua and Caleb of that generation were allowed entry into the promised land.

Brothers and sisters, we may have been delivered from the clutches of sin as we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ for our salvation. Yet in our journey to heaven, our Promised Land, we are called to a life of overcoming. Many are the “giants” that may come our pathway in our sojourn on the earth—the pressures of life such as problems at work, issues of family, physical ailments, sinful passions, etc, that take the form of giants that we feel like grasshoppers ready to be swallowed up! But if we take our eyes off the Almighty One, lose focus of the “goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil.3:14), we are prone to stumble and fall away. How should our attitude be at such time? Surely, one of an OVERCOMER! God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. (1Cor.1:9). If you trust Him, He will see you through every struggle and make you an overcomer through Christ! Have the attitude of an overcomer!

Remember what God says about those who will enter His Kingdom: He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. (Revelation 21:7)