An Inheritance Already Received and Also to Be Embraced Every Day, At the Same Time - Morning by Morning, February 28, 2025

“Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you” (Joshua 1:3).

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Morning by Morning, February 28, 2025 - An Inheritance Already Received and Also to Be Embraced Every Day, At the Same Time

Good morning, Lord Jesus. You are my Focus, as I watch and wait for Your leading in my listening (John 10:27). ...

“Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you” (Joshua 1:3).

In Your Word and Your Command to Joshua in his leadership to lead the people of God into their inheritance, You said You “have given” them the land (v. 3). That’s past tense. It’s already done. It’s finished. It’s accomplished and settled with no room for debate or doubt.

And at the same time, You also said in Your Word and Your Command that they were to go into “the land which I am giving them” (v. 2). That’s not past tense. That’s not already done, finished, accomplished, settled with no room for debate or doubt. That’s a call to engage a process, a journey, an ongoing campaign until it is finally accomplished. Both are true at the same time.

You gave them their inheritance, but they also had to actively receive it, embrace it, fight for it. Even though it was theirs at the command of Your Word, there would still be enemy giants in the land to fight and powerful strongholds to overcome. The battles would belong to the Lord, but they would be the ones to fight the battles, in Your wisdom and Your power, but through their obedience. Real battles. Real fights. Real opportunities to win or to lose, to advance or to retreat.

You would give them the strategies for the battles, but it would be up to them to trust and obey. Sometimes they would not trust, would not obey; and they would lose the battle. But in repentance and faith, in the wisdom of learning from mistakes and in the shaping of their character and confidence in You, You would give them more opportunities to advance and receive the inheritance You’d already given to them.

So receiving their inheritance was not passive, even though it was already decreed to be theirs. Receiving their inheritance was active, requiring faith and obedience every step of the way, even though You had already given them every place the soles of their feet would tread (v. 3).

Lord, show me my inheritance. Lead me by Your grace, empower me by Your grace, to fight the battles before me, to take the land of my inheritance You’ve set before me. In one sense, it’s already done, finished, and accomplished. And at the same time, my choices are real, my decisions have consequences, my heart attitude and spiritual perspective makes a difference.

So I desperately need You in every moment, through every battle. Help me learn to get it right; and even help me learn when I get it wrong. Right or wrong, You’ll use it all to teach me and train me, to equip me and empower me, on my spiritual journey through the battles of my world to make me more like You each day (Romans 8:29: 1 John 3:2 and 4:17; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:23). In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.