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“Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died…and they buried him in the border of his inheritance” (Joshua 24:29-30).
About sixty years ago, I remember going to a funeral home to view the body of an old brother in Christ who had died. He had been faithful to the Lord all his life, and was highly respected. During the conversation with his relatives, another brother picked up a Bible that was on the coffin and read today’s verses. He pointed out that this older brother who had died was going to be buried, so to speak, in his spiritual inheritance. What did he mean?
He meant that the brother who had died could not take anything of this world with him, but he could take with him all he had learned of Christ over a lifetime of eighty years. He will be able to enjoy that for all eternity. In a coming day, when the Lord Jesus receives all created things as His inheritance, we will have that too. But our spiritual inheritance is something special that each of us will have. If we live our lives for Christ, we too can have a rich spiritual inheritance.
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