Grasshopper Mentality

 

 

Numbers 13:33

 

And there we saw the giants,

the sons of Anak, which come of the giants:

and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers,

and so we were in their sight.

 

As it was in that day

So, it is in our time,

Not only are we grasshoppers

But so is God in our mind.

 

The land was great

And worthy of possession

But there were giants there:

A gigantic obstruction.

 

Twelve spies were sent out

To spy out the land,

God had promised them it;

That was His plan.

 

The majority reported

The land was already taken

There were giants there

And they were frightened.

 

“They are stronger than we

We can’t go up against them,

No consideration of God;

Don’t you see the problem?

 

 

We look like grasshoppers

in our own sight

And no doubt these giants

Will see us in the same light.”

 

Those giants were too big

Perhaps, even for God,

That’s what ten spies thought

But these were not all.

 

Two read it differently

And urged to possess the land,

They believed, unlike the other ten,

This was God’s command.

 

Well to cut to the chase

They preferred to go elsewhere

And wandered in the desert

For forty years.

 

 

God judged that generation

For their gross unbelief

And all but Joshua and Caleb

Became deceased.

 

None of that generation

Entered the promised land

But Caleb and Joshua,

Not another man.

 

Moses could only view it

From the summit of a mount

Of them that entered

He was not in that count.

 

 

The grasshopper mentality

Is still alive and well

And believers are reluctant

The Good News to tell.

 

The World are the giants

And we are the grasshoppers,

We’ve become so politically correct

The Gospel don’t seem proper.

 

Join them or be quiet

Appears to be the trend

Or simply engage in a show

Of let’s pretend.

 

Some call this hypocrisy

Others call it survival

But the grasshopper mentality

Is a more appropriate title.

 

The World is the field

Where the harvest is ripe

But to them we are grasshoppers

We continually gripe.

 

The Gospel is too good

To waste on these animals

God, come for your church

And save your people.

 

This world is getting worse

Even a blind man can see,

And in this ungodly confusion

Is no place to be.

 

 

We keep on forgetting

That we are salt and light

And the world will get worse

If we refuse to fight.

 

The difference is made

With each soul that is saved

When we carry out the command

Which the Saviour gave.

 

“Go ye therefore

And teach all nations!”

But there are giants in the land:

A gigantic obstruction.

 

 

The world is our Jericho

And God has empowered

But we look like grasshoppers

In their eyes and ours.

 

It’s the grasshopper mentality

That fills us with fear

Causing us to be as grasshoppers

In our eyes and in theirs.

 

Stewart Russell © November 20, 2020