Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory. Joshua 1:3 – 4.
The land of inheritance was in front of Joshua and the people of Israel; they had but to obediently walk on it. To walk on it in disobedience would result in defeat (see Joshua Chapter 7); to walk on it in obedience would make the inheritance theirs.
In traditional rest estate law, after a buyer has signed the settlement papers and paid his money to the seller, in order to consummate the sale he must actually “take possession” of the property. Until the buyer has actually walked into the home the transaction has not been consummated in traditional (common) law. Is this not the case with God’s people?
Our kind heavenly Father and Lord Jesus give us our inheritance through the Cross, but it is of little avail if we don’t walk on it, possess it, and appropriate it via experience in our heart and minds.
This book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success. Joshua 1:8
The possession of our inheritance in Christ is related to the Word of God. Consider Peter’s words:
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us to His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. 2 Peter 1:2 – 4.
God gives us His Word that we might know who He is and who we are in Him in order that we may become partakers of His very nature, that we might have relationship, fellowship, koinonia (John Chapter 17) with Him and with one another. If we don’t know His promises how can we walk on them? If we don’t know where the land of inheritance is located (which is now and always “in Christ”) how can we partake of Him?
Notice the relationship, in Joshua 1:8, between the mouth and meditation. What my heart and mind is focused on, my mouth will speak; when I speak what I meditate upon then what I meditate upon is encouraged to take root within my being. Meditation is not silent, it is also verbal; the mouth and heart correspond in meditation, else the seed sown in the heart will have little root and little fruit.
What does the land of our inheritance look like today?
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