Numbers 14:32-33 And they spread among the Israelites a bad report about the land they had explored. They said, “The land we explored devours those living in it. All the people we saw there are of great size. 33 We saw the Nephilim there (the descendants of Anak come from the Nephilim). We seemed like grasshoppers in our own eyes, and we looked the same to them.”
The mind can become our meanest foe, sabotaging our dreams and our destiny. “Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears” – Laird Hamilton. Human mind is intelligent and imaginative. It can dream beyond boundaries and create unseen worlds. It is the workshop of creation however it can also become the workshop of destruction if our thought process is misleading and misconstrued.
The ten spies who were sent to explore the geography, topography and demography of the Promised Land came back with an adverse report that terrorized the hearts of the people. They said that giants live in the land and the land will open its mouth and swallow them! They also said that they appeared to be like grasshoppers in their own eyes and in the eyes of the giants. But…who said so?
The Bible doesn’t say that the spies had an encounter with the giants. However, their imagination picturized the Hebrews being trampled under the foot of the giants like grasshoppers and the imagination gripped their hearts with dread, disbelief and disobedience.
Fear and doubt gives birth to worry and worry drifts us into the imaginary world of dread and depression. It is fair to say that about 90% of the stress is caused by imagination. Demons enjoy watching us stressing, losing sleep, suffering from anxiety and drowning in the imaginary pit of dread and dissolution.
Defeat the grasshopper mentality:
- Ask: If a thought troubles you ask yourself this question – Who said so? The Lord or the devil?
- Analyze: It is important to capture every thought that passes through the mind and securitize it under the lens of God’s Word. Light of God’s Word will expose the truth (Psalm 119:130).
- Authorize: Don’t authorize demeaning, dreadful or depressing thoughts to take root in the mind.
Ask and analyze before you authorize or dwell on any thought process.
Prayer: Dear Holy Spirit, help me to be vigilant and sober to defeat the grasshopper mentality. Amen.
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