Day 29 with Moses: The Lord is our inheritance.

“You will bring them in and plant them In the mountain of Your inheritance, In the place, O Lord, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.”

‭‭Exodus‬ ‭15:17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The scenario is ubiquitous: a relative who has been neglected—basically ignored by other relatives—becomes “very dear” to a suddenly appearing relative as they near death or are deceased. So what’s going on here? Sad to say, many times the motivation is one of greed. They want to get “their part” of an inheritance.

I was at a funeral a while back where—after the funeral had gotten started—a small group of individuals walked from the back of the chapel to sit at the very front, deliberately making a very obvious entrance. As it turns out, these people happened to be the deceased’s children from another mother, about which the family of record was clueless. They had come to stake their claim.

Inheritance is a part of life. Many hope for a good inheritance. More should probably hope to leave a good inheritance. And, even though money is useful, a good inheritance concerns more than money.

Did you know that when the children of Israel were being allotted portions of the Promised Land, the Levites received no property? Now, don’t feel sorry for them; they had a much better inheritance:

“The priests, the Levites—all the tribe of Levi—shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel; they shall eat the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and His portion. Therefore they shall have no inheritance among their brethren; the Lord is their inheritance, as He said to them.”

‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭18:1-2‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Wow! THE LORD was to be their inheritance! But wait a minute, what about us? Could we hope for the Lord to be OUR inheritance? Before answering that question, let me present a scripture to you:

“Why do the nations rage, And the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, “Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, And distress them in His deep displeasure: “Yet I have set My King On My holy hill of Zion.” “I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me, ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You The nations for Your inheritance, And the ends of the earth for Your possession.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭2:1-8‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Who is being referenced in this Psalm? We know that this turns out to be a prophetic word concerning what God would do through Jesus Christ. But what about the inheritance? Why does Jesus—being God in flesh—need an inheritance? The answer is: He did not need an inheritance; but we did. To explain, having lost our inherited power over God‘s creation (through Sin), the Lord took on flesh and—through His work—secured an inheritance FOR US! Now, that ought to make you do a happy dance!

Today we find Moses referencing the fact that the Lord has provided His people with the mountain of His inheritance. Now, we know that there was an allusion here to Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. But, as we discovered yesterday (in terms of a prophetic word looking forward), we also see here a prophetic reference to the eternal inheritance bought back for us through the Person, Jesus Christ.

For today let us discover what Moses discovered:

The Lord is our inheritance.

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