Deuteronomy 11:10-11

…10“For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your foot like a vegetable garden. 11“But the land into which you are about to cross to possess it, a land of hills and valleys, drinks water from the rain of heaven

In my short post:  davebosquez.com/postitnote2mountains/

I discussed 2 mountains for every valley.

The bible states: ‘a land of mountains and valleys’.

Here are some valleys I discovered in the bible…

• The Valley of Decision, this one has me scared for people who do not know God
• The Valley of Baca
• The Valley of the Shadow of Death
• The Valley of Visions, Isaiah 22
• The Valley of the son of Hinnom
• The Valley of Slaughter
• The Valley of the Multitudes of Gog
• The Valley of Hebron
• The Valley of Salt, are just some.

There are also mountains mentioned but we can discuss that later.

I am wondering what people feel when they read something like this today, a land full of mountains and valleys, and giants, and walled cities.

Do you feel like the Israelite’s, like grasshoppers or like Caleb, “yea there’s giants let’s go get em’!”

As I study success and successful people I am starting to see a very marked difference in peoples attitudes.

People that I feel are successful have a certain confidence about them that I have found in Jesus. When Jesus is with Pontius Pilate, Pilot is the one who is running around going back and forth, stuck between the people and Caesar, Jesus is quiet. He is still. The picture I get when I read this is that he has this quiet confidence about him that show’s he is really in charge of the situation.

If you haven’t read it, read it, if you haven’t read it in a while, go back and read it again.

Never mind, here ya go… Matthew 27

^“11 Now Jesus stood before the governor. And the governor asked Him, saying, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

Jesus said to him, “It is as you say.”

¹² And while He was being accused by the chief priests and elders, He answered nothing.

¹³ Then Pilate said to Him, “Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?”

¹⁴ But He answered him not one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.”

The opposite attitude is one of grumbling and complaining. It is very tiresome being around people who are constantly griping.

Even Christian men do this and it is double hard to communicate with them because they have forgotten the word of God that says,

Philippians 2:14-16

^“14 Do everything without complaining and arguing,

¹⁵ so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.

¹⁶ Hold firmly to the word of life; then, on the day of Christ’s return, I will be proud that I did not run the race in vain and that my work was not useless.”

They forget the word and so dirty their own testimony and are so convinced that they are ok that they are just as blind as the world full of crooked and perverse people.

You have to question their commitment to Christ.