Cogitation: Lewis and Clark and Joshua and Caleb
Journal 2005 06 10
Cogitation: Lewis and Clark and Joshua and Caleb
The captains recognize that wherever their “cogitation” sends them they are at a critical spot in their journey. They also know they need to lighten their load. The men set about caching some of their stores of goods for retrieval upon their return. Gun powder, rifles, bear skins, bighorn sheep horns and many other items they don’t think they will need for the balance of their journey are placed in the “climate controlled” holes in the ground. They also tie one of the pirogues to a tree, cover it with boughs to keep the sun off of it and mark the trees with a branding iron that Captain Lewis has brought with him.
Over the course of yesterday and today the captains come to a decision that Lewis will take a small group of men up the left fork and proceed swiftly in order to find the “great falls” their Indian friends told them of. This will verify their choice. Confident they will find the falls in days, not weeks because they are able to see mountain ranges rising in the west. They know geography and are convinced they will see the falls before the mountains.
Drouillard, Joseph Field, Gibson and Goodrich will go with Captain Lewis overland in search of the falls. Clark and the rest of the men will finish their quick retooling and proceed upriver behind the small, swift advance team. Today we would say that Lewis and his men were on a “recon” mission.
Lewis has dysentery and Sacagawea is very ill. Clark, the resident medic, bleeds Sacagawea. It doesn’t help.
Lewis’ airgun has a broken spring and Private Shields fixes it. All goods are dried out and canoes are repaired.
I am reminded of the spies Moses and Aaron sent into the Promised Land. Only two were able to bring a report of the victory at hand that God had already declared theirs. “If Jehovah delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.”
Two were the majority because they saw victory in a promise. Lewis and Clark were the majority because they carried the vision. They were commissioned with command and the authority to fulfill Jefferson’s vision. Joshua and Caleb were later commissioned, given command and authority, because they believed God’s vision for victory.
What kind of report do we bring when we’ve been in a “strange” land? Are we whining, complaining and negative? Or, do we carry God’s vision of victory and promise that Joshua and Caleb bore in faith?
Lewis and Clark stood above the common analysis and saw the future with vision. They acted with command and authority under that vision. Can we take inspiration from Lewis and Clark and respond like Joshua and Caleb with a report of victory, not fear?
Cogitation: Lewis and Clark and Joshua and Caleb
The captains recognize that wherever their “cogitation” sends them they are at a critical spot in their journey. They also know they need to lighten their load. The men set about caching some of their stores of goods for retrieval upon their return. Gun powder, rifles, bear skins, bighorn sheep horns and many other items they don’t think they will need for the balance of their journey are placed in the “climate controlled” holes in the ground. They also tie one of the pirogues to a tree, cover it with boughs to keep the sun off of it and mark the trees with a branding iron that Captain Lewis has brought with him.
Over the course of yesterday and today the captains come to a decision that Lewis will take a small group of men up the left fork and proceed swiftly in order to find the “great falls” their Indian friends told them of. This will verify their choice. Confident they will find the falls in days, not weeks because they are able to see mountain ranges rising in the west. They know geography and are convinced they will see the falls before the mountains.
Drouillard, Joseph Field, Gibson and Goodrich will go with Captain Lewis overland in search of the falls. Clark and the rest of the men will finish their quick retooling and proceed upriver behind the small, swift advance team. Today we would say that Lewis and his men were on a “recon” mission.
Lewis has dysentery and Sacagawea is very ill. Clark, the resident medic, bleeds Sacagawea. It doesn’t help.
Lewis’ airgun has a broken spring and Private Shields fixes it. All goods are dried out and canoes are repaired.
I am reminded of the spies Moses and Aaron sent into the Promised Land. Only two were able to bring a report of the victory at hand that God had already declared theirs. “If Jehovah delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey.”
Two were the majority because they saw victory in a promise. Lewis and Clark were the majority because they carried the vision. They were commissioned with command and the authority to fulfill Jefferson’s vision. Joshua and Caleb were later commissioned, given command and authority, because they believed God’s vision for victory.
What kind of report do we bring when we’ve been in a “strange” land? Are we whining, complaining and negative? Or, do we carry God’s vision of victory and promise that Joshua and Caleb bore in faith?
Lewis and Clark stood above the common analysis and saw the future with vision. They acted with command and authority under that vision. Can we take inspiration from Lewis and Clark and respond like Joshua and Caleb with a report of victory, not fear?
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