The Book Of Joshua - Sharing The Inheritance (Daily Devotional)

Greetings and welcome to Living Supernaturally. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity to minister God’s word and to spend a few moments in prayer. This week, we have been talking about the book of Joshua and learning lessons on how God dealt with the people of Israel. We will bring this week to a close by talking about sharing the inheritance. Joshua chapter 21, verses 1 to 3, ‘Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, “The Lord commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, with pasturelands for our livestock.” So, as the Lord had commanded, the Israelites gave the Levites the following towns and pasturelands out of their own inheritance.’ After nearly all the tribes had received their inheritance from the land, it was necessary for the Levites to receive their allotment. They received towns and pasturelands from all the tribes as God had commanded. The tribe of Levi had no region of land because God had declared that He would be their inheritance. However, they had to live somewhere, so each tribe gave them cities and common lands. As they were spread evenly through the land, no one in Israel was far from the ministry of God’s word. This shows how important it was for God’s people to have ongoing teaching, empowering and explanation of God’s word. Today, God also wants to distribute His people broadly throughout the world. God doesn’t intend that a single Christian nation or state where all Christian people live together in spiritual bliss and say to the world, come and join us if you want. Instead, God wants us as Christians to be priests, sprinkled throughout the whole land, influencing people for Jesus Christ and being a messenger of His word. The Lord required this because the tribe of Levi was to serve God as priests and caretakers of the Lord’s house at the tent of meeting. The grant of towns and pasture lands throughout Israel to the tribe of Levi made it possible for priests and Levites to serve as a constant reminder that all of Israel lived in the Lord’ presence, no matter how far they lived for the tabernacle. That was good for it prevented those who loved close to the tabernacle from thinking they were something special. God’s only Son, our ultimate high priests, Jesus Christ, brings us into God’s presence. In that way, you and I as believes, no matter where we live, share the inheritance that Jesus gained on the cross which He died for our sins. He stands before God on our behalf and we are credited with His righteousness. We all live in God’s presence.

Let’s pray, Father, we thank you for this entire week and the lessons we learnt from this book. We pray that you will enable and empower us to apply all these lessons and principles into our lives. We thank you that your Holy Spirit will lead and guide us every step of the way, in Jesus’ name we pray, Amen.

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