What Spirit Consumes You?

 

I have been studying the life of Caleb in the Old Testament.

Although much is not known of this wonderful man, there is MUCH to learn in his character that light is shed upon.

In Number 14:24, the Lord describes Caleb as being different from the others he lived among.  God says this, “But my servant Caleb has a different attitude than the others have.  He has remained loyal to Me so I will bring him into the land he explored.”  (NLT)

In the NKJV it says it this way, “But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.”

Caleb was said to have a, “different attitude”… but it was truly because he had a, “different spirit” in him.

He was not only strong and courageous and bold and heroic… all those were true of him… but he also had the Spirit of the influence of God in His life, which took his character to a WHOLE other level!

Because the truth is that we will always radiate on the outside what we are filed up and consumed by on the inside.

If we are filled up with junky foods… our poor diet will eventually radiate outwardly.
If we are filled up with fear… our anxiety and dread will eventually radiate outwardly.

But when you and I insist on being filled with the word of God… filled with His promises… filled with His abiding Spirit in all that we do and all that we say … it, too, will eventually radiate outwardly for all to see.
 

It’s just like our words.  "But the words you speak come from the heart—that’s what defiles you.”  Matthew 15:18

What we choose to be FILLED with and FUELED by is so important to our spiritual lives.

Proverbs 4:23 says this, "Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.”

What are we filling our hearts with?

Can it be said of us like it was of Caleb who had a “different attitude” and a, “different spirit in him.”?

What you are feasting upon?
We will always act according to what spirit consumes us!