Still As Strong

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Hello, my friend… so glad you're with me today. This is By God's Call — day 67, Still As Strong.

"I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming." Joshua 14:11.

Let me tell you who is speaking these words. Caleb. Eighty-five years old. Forty-five years earlier, he had been one of the twelve spies sent to scout the promised land. Twelve men saw the same land, the same giants, the same fortified cities. Ten came back terrified. Only Caleb and Joshua came back saying, "God is bigger than all of this. Let's go up and take the land."

Because of the people's unbelief, that entire generation spent forty years wandering the wilderness — and died there, never entering the promised land. Only Caleb and Joshua, of the adults from that time, survived to cross the Jordan. And now, decades later, at eighty-five years old, Caleb stands before Joshua claiming the promise Moses had made to him a long time before.

And look at what he says: "I am still as strong." Not "God gave me a new strength for my old age." He says it's the same strength. The strength he had at forty, he still carries at eighty-five. This isn't about privileged genetics. It's the direct fruit of an entire lifetime of following the LORD fully, without wavering, while an entire generation around him gave up, doubted, and died along the way.

Notice also the reach of that strength: "for war and for going and coming." It's not just for the dramatic moment of battle. It's for ordinary life — for the daily comings and goings, for the small tasks no one applauds. The strength God gives doesn't only pick the spotlight moments; it sustains everyday life too.

And what Caleb asks for, at eighty-five, is not a comfortable chair. It's not well-earned rest. He asks for the hill country — full of giants, the very same one he'd seen decades earlier that nobody else had yet dared to face. He wants the hardest mountain, not because he's ignoring his own age, but because his faith was never about the strength of his body. It was always about God's faithfulness.

My friend, maybe you're carrying an old promise. Something God spoke to you years ago, maybe decades ago, that still hasn't come to pass. Maybe you've watched people around you give up, doubt, settle for less. Caleb teaches us that following God fully, for a long time, doesn't drain your strength — it preserves it. And a day comes when you, like him, can stand up and say: I am still ready. I still want my mountain.

So today, here is the invitation: name, out loud, the old promise you are carrying. And ask God to take it — not with the hesitation of someone who thinks their time has passed, but with the same conviction Caleb had, knowing the strength for it was never his own. It was always God's.

Stay close to God. Pray — then act. I'll see you tomorrow, my friend.