Numbers 13:31-33 “But the men who had gone up with him said, ‘We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.’ 32And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, ‘The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.’”
Moses had sent twelve men, one from each tribe in Israel; to search out the land God said He would give them. Ten came back with a bad report. They said the people were stronger although they never contested them. They said the land devours the inhabitants although they had not given themselves the chance to live in it. They said that they were like grasshoppers in the sight of the giants although there is no record that they surveyed the people. There is one phrase that is quite telling in verse 33: “…we were like grasshoppers in our own sight…” They still had a self-image left over from Egypt. They were defeated and of little account. They had a grasshopper mentality that would keep them from succeeding. The issue is not how big are you but how big is your God? With God the least is the greatest and the underdog is the overcomer.
Do you have grasshopper mentality? If so, you need to read God’s description of His people. We are made to be kings and priests and our self-image and identity needs to be derived from the word of God and not from our present circumstances. Think higher!