Are we not all on a journey? Are we not all headed somewhere… a new day, to something better, a new venture, a new job, a trip abroad, or possibly something more? No doubt we are going somewhere, but where and what for? Back in November, I started receiving a revelation about where I was heading and its purpose (you can read about it here). This revelation began as I started reading through the Old Testament with the purpose of understanding its significance today, if any. As I began to read about the exodus from Egypt, I noticed the theme of inheritance as they were on their journey to the promise land. Through the reading I began to understand that God had an inheritance for me as well (1 Peter 1:4).
So with my inheritance in mind and leadership school approaching, I knew that I would be coming to Spain to start this journey. I believe that somewhere along the way I got a bit distracted of where I was going. I thought to myself many times that I was already there, I have already crossed the Jordan and started receiving my inheritance. About three weeks ago, I realized that I did not have it… I was going back to places from the past that I thought I had dealt with. To further the confirmation of this, we started a word study of Numbers 33 (the recounting of Israel’s journey) on the different camps where the people stayed. What I got from this was that the places that the people camped were not actually real places but places they named after what they were feeling. For example they camped at Marah, a place of bitterness, Haradah, a place of fear, as well as Kinroth Hattaavah, graves of lust. What you notice about the whole journey is that they lived by their circumstances, not by what God had promised them. They wondered in the desert for 40 years because they did not go and take possession of the land. It took 40 years of people learning to leave and get rid of all the things they were holding on to and realize that God had something for them, something better than fear, better than lust, better than bitterness. He had told them He was taking them into their inheritance but they were just not willing to let go. Countless miracles, signs and wonders and they still were not ready… He was waiting on them to fully walk into their inheritance.
Today, Christ is in us (Colossians 1:27) and we have the same ability to walk into our inheritance as they did in the desert. Where are you camped out today? Are you still camped in places of fear, of lust, of bitterness? Or are you waiting on God to do all the work… they camped in places of palms and stations where they were just waiting. We have been given everything we need to walk forward across the Jordan and leave these camps behind. While they camped for 40 years, they celebrated Pentecost and Passover but were not able to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles because there was no harvest because they had no land!
On Thursday, I decided that I was tired of wondering around from camp to camp and was ready to celebrate harvest. In Joshua, before they reached the promise land, God tells him that the new generation must be circumcised. They had to get rid of all the crap they had been holding onto- the circumcision of the heart. They were able to celebrate what God had done for their people through Passover and then the day after the manna ceased (Joshua 5:12) because they ate the fruit of the their land! They no longer needed the manna because they had what God had originally promised them… a land that they could work that would give its own harvest! They received their inheritance! 
“And the commander of the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.� And Joshua did so.� (Joshua 5:15)
I was not wearing sandals to class but boots. So in front of class and now here for all to see, I have taken my boots off as a symbol of this transaction (see Ruth 4:7) that I am receiving my inheritance. I am no longer camping out but celebrating all that He has done! If I were to have gone to the worlds top literary school, I could not have ever dreamed or written a better journey than where God has already taken me and where He is continuing to take me.
