WALK THROUGH THE LAND, Pt 2, No. 525
WALK THROUGH THE LAND
Part 2
“I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land,
and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me”
(Joshua 18:4).
Today we look at the next two instructions Joshua gave for possessing the land.
2. GO THROUGH THE LAND (Joshua 18: 4, 8, 9).
We don’t arise to hang around the edges of the land. We begin walking through. God wants us to know what He has given to us. We cannot possess and enjoy what we don’t know we have.
A New Zealand friend told me of her brother who purchased land which he trusted would help to provide for his family. However, the land wasn’t good enough and he ended up using it as a hobby farm. After many years he decided to sell, when to his astonishment, he found that he owned another 10 acres of lovely fertile land that would have been perfect to farm and provide for his family. All those years he missed out on his own land because he didn’t know he had it. He didn’t possess it because he didn’t know about it.
This is what happens with much of the land of God’s Word. Many Christians don’t even know one-tenth of what God has provided for them. Because they don’t know about it, they don’t walk in it. We all fall short, don’t we?
It is a life-time journey. There is more in God’s Word for us than we can ever fathom. Colossians 2:3 says: “In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” In Christ and in His Word are hid ALL the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. But we’ve got to dig for them. Gold and great treasures don’t lie on the surface.
3. DESCRIBE THE LAND (Joshua 18:4, 6, 8, 9).
The third instruction was to write a description of the land. In these four verses Joshua uses the word “describe” five times! It was not enough to walk through the land, they had to write about it. Not just the delightful parts, but the challenging pats too.
As you walk through the land of God’s Word each day, do you write down what you see? Do you record the revelations God gives to you? You will find that as you are faithful to write down what God gives to you; He will give you more.
Jesus said in Mark 4:24, 25 (TPT): “Be diligent to understand the meaning behind everything you hear, for as you do, more understanding will be given to you. And according to the depth of your longing to understand, much more will be added to you. For those who listen with open hearts will receive more revelation. But those who don’t listen with open hearts will lose what little they think they have!”
This is such an important thing to do as we forget so easily. I was 18 years old when I read the words in Jeremiah 30:2: “Thus speaketh the LORD God of Israel, saying, Write thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book.” I took those words personally and have continued to write what God speaks to me ever since that day! It has been the greatest blessing of my life. .I believe that when God sees my pen and journal ready, He knows I mean business, and that I don’t what to forget what He tells me. And I certainly will forget if I don’t write it down!
The word “describe” in the Hebrew is kathab and means “to grave, to write, to record. “Did you know that it is the same word that is used of God writing the Ten Commandments”?
Exodus 24;12: “And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written (kathab); that thou mayest teach them.”
Exodus 31:18: “And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with hi upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony tables of stone, WRITTEN (kathab) WITH THE FINGER OF GOD.” Read also Exodus 32:15, 16; 34:1, 2, 27; Deuteronomy 4;13; 5:22; and 9:10; 10:4).
God not only wants to write the words He speaks to us in a book, but on our homes. Deuteronomy 6:9 and 11:20 state: “And thou shalt write (kathab) them upon the doorposts of thine house, and upon thy gates.”
Blessings from Nancy Campbell
PRAYER:
“I thank You, Father, for the land of Your Word. I don’t want to stay near the edges. I want to walk through it. I 3 want to search for your treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Please help me to be diligent. Amen.”
AFFIRMATION:
I’m walking through the land with my pen in hand and journal ready to write everything that God shows to me and reveals to me.
In the above Scripture God tells Abram to walk through the land that He promised to him and his descendants. When we first read a Scripture, we read it literally. This is speaking to literal person about an existing land—the land of Israel which God has given to His people as an everlasting possession.
TRUTH KEEPERS
Isn’t it amazing how much the Bible says about truth? Well, it shouldn’t be amazing because God is Truth.
More truth points to meditate upon and and talk about with your children.