Some people start strong but do not finish strong. They begin with enthusiasm, but somewhere along the way the wind goes out of their sails. Life gets hard. Critics get loud. Giants get big. Faith feels small. But then there are those rare people who simply do not quit. They aren’t louder. They aren’t necessarily more talented. They just keep going when others stop.

Caleb is one of those people. At 85 years old, he stands before Joshua and says: “Now therefore, give me this mountain…” (Joshua 14:12)
Not “give me a rocking chair.” Not “give me retirement.” Not “give me comfort.” But “give me the mountain with the giants still on it.”
Caleb shows us what it means to press on when others want to sit down.  Caleb presents four characteristics of a person who presses on. Let’s walk through them.

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There is something inside every believer that longs to grow — to move forward — to become more like Jesus. And yet, there is also something in us that resists change, clings to comfort, and gets easily discouraged. The Christian life is not static. It is not a museum where we admire what God once did. It is a journey, a race, a pursuit. In this message we learn this lesson: To make spiritual progress we are invited to add choice and effort to God’s work of change in us. God does the changing — but He invites us to cooperate.

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