THERE is something unique about Caleb; "he wholly followed the Lord his God.”
What varied experience must have been his! he was forty years in Egypt, forty days in the land of promise, and then forty years in the wilderness. He had a day in the land for every year in the wilderness to cheer him—a day for a year; and then he had to go through all the trials, and exercises, and delays of the people. Think what Caleb must have felt as one and another was added to the death-roll! And yet this man of faith, this man of hope, this man of God, went on quietly through the wilderness, through all the difficulties of every-day life, cheered by what he had seen in the land. We may well call him the apostle of hope.
Let the Christian get tastes of the heavenly possession, let him seek the practical knowledge of "Christ in you the hope of glory," and this hope will give him—Caleb-like purpose for the way.