Pat's View: Inspirational Stories

Maybe you can think of a dozen reasons that fear shouldn't hang out at your house, but I have one great, big, huge, hairy reason it can't stay at my house.   Before I share this 1 reason you can't let fear stay, let me tell you how I learned that lesson.   I was writing God's Laws for Kids, so I was studying Exodus and Numbers 13. I love the Old Testament stories especially anything about Moses. Moses is one of my heroes! My story begins at a crucial moment in Israel's history.   It was time to take possession of the promise.   God described His Promise   to Moses  when he bowed before Him at the burning bush. Exodus 3:8 NIV 8So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey—the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live. Exodus 3:8 NIV   Fertile. Spacious. Flowing With nourishing milk and sweet honey.     They were out, and now it was t