“Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be”— Deuteronomy 11:24.
THIS promise was reiterated to Joshua. (Josh. 1:3).
God had given all the land of Canaan and adjacent countries also, from Lebanon and the Euphrates unto the Mediterranean Sea, to Israel before they ever entered upon their inheritance at all. It was all theirs by title. But they were responsible to make it theirs by actual experience. So is it with believers today. We are blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ (Eph. 1:3), but how few of us have really entered experimentally into the enjoyment of our inheritance! Israel never occupied all the land God promised them. When they are restored to the Lord in the last days, we are told that “the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions” (Obad. 17). This will be under the New Covenant of grace.
“There are heights of sweet communion
That are all awaiting me:
There are ocean depths of mercy
That are flowing full and free:
There are precious pearls of promise
That can ne’er be priced in gold,
There’s a fullness in my Saviour
That has never yet been told.”