According to Deuteronomy 1:22, Moses was urging the people to go into the Promised Land and conquer it, claim it. God had told them over and over that he'd be with them, and the land was good (Exodus 3:8). But they did what many groups do who don't want to do anything - they set up a committee to investigate: let's send twelve spies into the land to search out the best route. Numbers 13 & 14 tell the story... The person chosen remarkably enough to represent the important tribe of Judah was this Gentile Caleb. Joshua and Caleb and ten others explored a land 'flowing with milk and honey'. They brought back a bunch of grapes so huge it took two men to carry it. In the desert they'd probably never seen grapes. In their wildest imagination they hadn't conceived of grapes like these. But there were two problems - giants, and the walled cities they lived in. So the committee was divided ten to two. Ten of the spies measured the giants against themselves: we can't do it, they said, they are stronger than we are. We're like grasshoppers compared to them.

Two - one of them Caleb measured the giants against God.

I am sometimes confronted by giants, Lord, and they're very big and threatening. But help me to compare their size to you, not to me. Amen.