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What do you do with 45 years of waiting for something that was taken from you by someone else's failure? That is the question at the heart of Caleb's story in Joshua 14, and it turns out his answer has everything to say about how we handle the wounds and delays in our own lives. We are confronted with a truth that cuts deep: we cannot always control what happens to us, but we can guard our own hearts. Bitterness, as this message makes clear, does not punish the person who hurt us. It hands them ongoing control over who we are becoming. Caleb refused to give the unbelieving spies that kind of power, and we are invited to ask ourselves whether we are willing to do the same.