Your Inheritance

When Joshua was old and well advanced in years, the LORD said to him, “You are very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.” (Joshua 13:1, NIV 1984).

My Musings – None of us are getting any younger. Some are more “advanced in years” than others. But just like you cannot judge a book by its cover, you cannot always judge a person’s spiritual maturity (the “book”) by how old they look on the outside (the “cover”). Some look back on their lives and see that “there are still very large areas of land [the old man] to be taken over.” Areas of their life that they have either not yielded to God, or that they have allowed to lay fallow (undeveloped or inactive, but potentially useful).

Then there are the others. “I [Caleb], however, followed the LORD my God…