Indelible.  in·del·i·ble  adjective

1. (of ink or a pen) Making marks that cannot be removed.
2. Not able to be forgotten or removed

“We should by all means go up and take possession of it, for we will surely overcome it……..But My servant Caleb, because he has had a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring him into the land which he entered and his descendants will take possession of it.”  Numbers 13:30 & Numbers 14:24

The Lord told Moses to send spies to go and check out the Promised Land that He had already declared theirs.  Why?  The Lord had already given it to them as an inheritance.  He repeatedly reminded His people of His Promise throughout their entire journey, beginning with Abraham.  So why now, does He ask them to go and see what the land was like?

Couldn’t He have just led them straight towards Canaan and allowed them to follow the cloud and the fire in the sky?  Couldn’t He have just opened up the earth and placed the Canaanites and Amalekites under the earth like He had done before?  Why send the spies?  Why give the people another reason to doubt His power, His plan and His purpose?

Some people say that we shouldn’t ask why, but I believe we cannot truly get to the heart of our Saviour without asking questions to open our eyes to the plans and the truths that He has so beautifully placed within His Word for us to see.

He wanted their complete trust, even when He did not act like they thought He should.

He wanted to make a mark on their hearts that only He could make, an indelible one.

Caleb had surrendered everything to the Lord.  His heart, his mind and his very will to the Lord who so faithfully led him.  Caleb had allowed the Lord to make that mark on his heart.  The mark that cannot be removed or forgotten.  The mark that changes everything.  His entire DNA was new.  And with this newness, it brought him to a place where he could stand alone with the power and the boldness of the One who created the heavens and the earth.

The Lord says “because he [Caleb] has had a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring him into the land.”  Caleb was different.  Caleb was recklessly faithful to the Lord.  Recklessly faithful.  A paradox.  By the world’s eyes, Caleb was ignorant to say that the Lord would deliver them from giants and trained warriors.  By the Spirit’s eyes, Caleb knew that no matter what happened to him, the Lord was faithful and worthy of ALL of our trust.

Is it possible to live in the year 2015 and have such an indelible change to allow us to live recklessly faithful to the Lord?  If so, I want to be the one.

“Walk along here, feel you move somewhere in front of me.  I can’t place you with these eyes for the doubt I can’t see.  How could someone so beautiful feel something for me?  Hold me and love me and touch me again, and show me why I believe.  That the first time I see your face, everything else around me will fade to the background.  And I’ll be struck full by the truth in your gaze, as you work an indelible change in me.  All I have and all I am and all I think and do, can find it’s purpose and meaning and life only in you.”  Indelible by Brooke Fraser