Lately, I have been thinking alot about the promised land. What is my promised land? What is our promised land? What has the Lord given us that we haven’t taken a hold of yet? And what is keeping us from taking a hold of it?
For me, going to Colorado in faith is symbolic of that. People ask me, “What are you going to do there?!” I’m not sure. I don’t know. But I know like I knew that I was supposed to go on the race, that I am supposed to go. All I know is that God dropped it in my lap when I was in Swaziland and that He has confirmed it repeatedly. So here I go. After a month at home, I pack up my stuff a-la-World-Race style, except maybe slightly more than a backpack full of stuff to head out west into the land that God promised me. 🙂
I’ve been reading in Joshua about how the Israelites got their promised land. They couldn’t just sit on the other side of the Jordan and wait for God to give it to them. They had to cross over the Jordan and TAKE it. It says, “He has given you this land.” It is already theirs, it was given to them, promised to them. But they had to take that wild step of faith and cross over with their own two feet. God stopped the Jordan river from flowing, but they had to walk across. So what the heck is the promised land? It is a future, a hope, its our inheritance, a physical and spiritual “land”, a land flowing with milk and honey…look in the Word for yourself, find out what He says it is.
Even when they got there, there were people that they had to conquer, to route. It wasn’t enough to just cross over and say “ok, we’re here.” No, it was this active process or truly making it theirs. There were actually people living there on their “promised land”. And these people knew that the living God was with the Israelites, and they were scared out of their minds. In the same way there are things from the enemy that have set up camp in our inheritance that try to rob us of what is rightfully ours. We have to take it and make it ours by routing and casting out all of those things that try to rob us…fear, doubt, the past, worries, anxieties, spirits of depression of anger, people’s expectations, generational curses, etc.
Here I go into the land that God has promised me…and oddly I feel like I am finally going home out to the big beautiful ROCKIES! Pray for safe travels, for my car and my bro’s car to make it there.
