Action Proves Faith

Joshua 12-18

I love reading about the courage and tenacity of Joshua and Caleb. God has promised inheritance to all tribes. All they need to do is to go in there, defeat the enemies and possess it. God promises He will deliver them into His hand. It is Caleb that is 85 yrs old and says to "give me this mountain" and professses...
14:11
As yet I [am as] strong this day as [I was] in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength [was] then, even so [is] my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

He received the promise and was wanting to claim it while others complained that they didn't have enough and wanted the promise of the land handed to them.

17:14-16
And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I [am] a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto? And Joshua answered them, If thou [be] a great people, [then] get thee up to the wood [country], and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee. And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, [both they] who [are] of Bethshean and her towns, and [they] who [are] of the valley of Jezreel.

It's like they said..."we want more; we don't want to work for it; just give it to us because that's only fair."
Sad to say, this is the attitude of America. "I want more money. I don't want to work for it. You did, so just share with me because that's only fair."
Well, I could go on and complain about the welfaristic attitude of Americans, but I try to focus on myself when I read the Bible. God has so many promises for me to claim, but I must show my faith in the promises by following the action He commands. My lack of action shows my lack of faith.