Numbers 13:33 KJV
And there we
saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our
own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
The
ten spies were first, in their own eyes, as grasshoppers. Whether the people of
the Canaan saw them that way is difficult to say. We do know that spies “felt”
like they were perceived that way.
Oftentimes
the way people see us is the way we see ourselves.
· It might be due to
our conduct
· It may be the
result of our own communication
We
often project onto others the perception we have of ourselves.
But
sometimes we believe others think of us one way when in truth they haven't
thought that way at all. Our relationship with them is not effected by their
perception of us but by our perception of ourselves.
Just
forty years after the spies saw themselves as grasshoppers before the giants of
Canaan, a younger generation of Israelites entered the Promised Land to take
it. There was, at that time, little or no talk of giants[1].
This time the perception of the Canaanites concerning the Jews was fear of
their God. They did not see Israel as grasshoppers. They saw them as the people
of the living God.
Had
Israel believed themselves to be the “people of God” forty years earlier they
may have noticed that the Canaanites saw them that way too.
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