Caleb’s Wholehearted Obedience 🙇 | Joshua 14 Devotional (7-Step QT)

7-Step QT Notes

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

Pause.

Take a deep breath.

Ask God to give you a heart that obeys completely.

2. 📅 December 6, 2025

Today’s passage reminds us:

Wholehearted obedience to God is never wasted—He is faithful to His promises and gives lasting inheritance.

3. ✝️ Joshua 14:1-15

As Israel begins dividing the land, Caleb approaches Joshua to recall the promise given through Moses after the spy mission. While others spread fear, Caleb followed the LORD wholeheartedly and kept faith with God’s word. Now at eighty-five, he asks for the hill country of Hebron, where the Anakim still live, trusting that God will enable him to drive them out. Joshua blesses him, and Hebron becomes Caleb’s inheritance because he wholly followed the LORD. The chapter notes that the land had rest from war.

4. 📖 Key Verse

“Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.” (v. 9)

5. 📝 Reflection

Caleb is remembered as a person who wholly followed the LORD—not for a week or a year, but across decades. When others chose fear, Caleb chose God’s promise. Even at eighty-five, he didn’t ask for an easy plot; he asked for Hebron—the hard hill—because he trusted that God’s presence was greater than any giant.

This points us to Jesus, the true Son of Judah, who obeyed the Father to the end, carried the cross for our salvation, and became the heir of all things (Hebrews 1:2). In Him, the reward of obedience is not just land—it’s eternal life and a share in His inheritance (Mark 10:30).

Dear friends, “Hebron” might look like a daunting career step, an honest conversation you’ve avoided, paying down debt, confessing hidden sin, or choosing consistency in prayer and community. God doesn’t ask for flashy moments; He delights in steady, wholehearted faith. When you choose His promise over fear—again and again—He forms your character, anchors your future, and gives you a lasting inheritance no title or paycheck can match.

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

  • What is my “Hebron”—the hard hill God is calling me to face with faith?
  • Where am I choosing fear or comfort over God’s promises?
  • What one act of wholehearted obedience will I do today?

7. 🙏 Prayer

Lord, make my heart wholehearted like Caleb’s.

Help me choose Your promises over fear and pursue the “hill country” You are giving me.

Thank You that in Jesus, obedience leads to a lasting inheritance and eternal life.

Amen.

Scriptures

📖 1 These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit. 2 Their inheritance was by lot, just as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. 3 For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. 4 For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance. 5 The people of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses; they allotted the land.

6 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 8 But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’ 10 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. 11 I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming. 12 So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”

13 Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel. 15 Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war (Joshua 14:1-15, ESV).

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