GRASSHOPPER OR GIANT-KILLER ?
Eturuvie Erebor
When you look in the mirror , who do you see ? Who is the person staring back at you ? How well do you know them ? If you were to describe them in one word what would it be ?
If asked to describe ourselves , many of us would fail . And this is because we do not know who we are . More often than not , we underestimate ourselves because of the circumstances we have been through and because of the things people ( who know nothing about us ) have told us and which we have accepted as the truth .
Twelve men were sent to spy the land that God had promised the children of Israel , and when they returned , they had different views of what they had seen , and their views were based on how they saw themselves . While all twelve agreed that there were giants in the land , ten out of the twelve said they were unable to possess the land because in comparison to the giants they were grasshoppers . No one called them grasshoppers they described themselves as
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