Have you faced a mountain in your life and wondered if you would ever overcome it?

Just the other day, I received great inspiration on overcoming life’s mountains from the story of Caleb in the Bible (see Joshua 14:7-15). I’ll tell you why in a moment.

Right now, I’m facing the mountain of getting older. I see new gray hairs on my head and feeling aches in my body that I’ve never felt before. It’s a little unsettling.

After all, it seems that I was 17 years-old just yesterday! And yet, I have a vision of aging well from the Bible:

The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,
He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Those who are planted in the house of the Lord
Shall flourish in the courts of our God.
They shall still bear fruit in old age;
They shall be fresh and flourishing,
To declare that the Lord is upright;
He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”

Caleb is my role model for aging well. You may recall that Caleb was one of the 12 men sent to spy out the Promised Land for Moses and report back on the conditions there.

Through circumstances beyond his control, Caleb was not able to get his share of the Promised Land as a young man. 

However, at the age of 85, he was finally able to say:

"...now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as on the day that Moses sent me; just as my strength was then, so now is my strength for war, both for going out and for coming in. Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the Lord spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said (Joshua 14:10-12)."

In the following article, you'll get 3 things from Caleb’s story that will help you overcome mountains in your life.

Click learn how to declare, "Now, Give Me This Mountain"

Kimberly Taylor