CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC
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CityViewNC.com | 19 Attorney Victoria Hardin HARDIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 1314 Raeford Road, Suite D, Fayetteville, NC 28305 910.568.4954 | www.hardinlawfirm.com Family Law issues are complex, but you don't have to go it alone. Vic- toria Hardin can navigate you through these issues, helping you lay the groundwork for a better tomorrow. Practice devoted exclusively to divorce, child custody, alimony, property division and domestic violence matters. problems. e first character trait we can learn from Caleb's life is this: Caleb trusted in God's faithfulness to keep His promises. A man who trusts God's faithfulness will be greatly used by God. Years later, 45 years to be exact, we find another episode in Caleb's life that is instructive. Caleb is now 85 years old and the nation of Israel has entered the land he had spied out 45 years prior. It has now come time to do the hard work of dispossessing people from the land God had given Israel. Caleb passionately asked if he might stake a claim to a certain part of the land. In his plea, recorded in Joshua 14:6-15, Caleb reminded his fellow spy and leader, Joshua, that he had "followed God fully." In fact, the phrase is used three times in the passage. Put another way, Caleb had followed God as a 40-year-old leader and was still following God as an 85-year-old. It was no fad, no flash-in-the-pan sort of season in his life. His was not a New Year's resolution that was made and promptly broken. Aer 45 years, he was still going strong and wanted to accomplish great things for God's glory. is second character trait: Caleb was faithful over the long haul. How about you? Have you given up on tackling great things for God? Are you still in the game, putting forth your best effort or have you reclined to the bench or sofa to watch the younger generation attempt great things for God? A man who remains faithful to God's purpose will be greatly used by God. ough Caleb had a "dog's life" the first 40 years of his life, during the next 45 years, he still believed God would be faithful to His promises. From his actions, we can learn two great lessons and character traits which we can aim to possess and model for others. CV