Tuesday, July 15, 2014
JULY REVIVAL PROMO
TEXT: JOSHUA 19:24-39
KEY VERSE: “This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages” (Joshua 19:31).
Many people delight in naming their blessings but the majority of such that count their blessings do not remember Him from whom the blessings flow. A grateful heart not only counts the blessings, he considers deeply the source.
In our text today, we look at the portions that fell to the tribes of Asher and Naphtali, respectively, when Canaan land was shared by Joshua among Israel’s twelve tribes. To Asher was given for an inheritance, that portion of land that was bordered on the West and the East by the Mediterranean Sea, the eminent port cities of Tyre and Sidon, and the Phoenician nations who were renowned sea merchants. Asher’s allotment was to make her rich and great because of the fertile soil and her business affiliations/partnership with her sea-faring neighbours.
Naphtali’s reclusive portion laid further north. She was surrounded almost entirely by friendly neighbours, a situation that afforded her rapid population and economic growth as her people spread themselves over an expansive, peaceful, and fertile land that brought much riches and wealth to the tribe.
Surely, Joshua did not give those allotments with the foreknowledge of the intrinsic wealth appertaining to each property; it was God who purposed it that His blessing which He had pronounced on the tribes through the mouths of Jacob and Moses might come to pass (Genesis 49:20,21; Deuteronomy 33:23-25). It is needless running after the blessing; get into relationship with the Giver: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all other things shall be added unto you.” The Bible tells us that promotion does not come from the West, East, North or South, but from God alone. Trust only in Him.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: There are no regrets when God chooses for you.
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