Wednesday, February 22, 2012

This Side

Joshua 12:1 KJV
Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:

Joshua 12:7 KJV
And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

The perspective of the book of Joshua, as in the Bible as a whole, from inside the boundaries of Israel.
• There were those kings Moses defeated on the other side of Jordan and
• There are those Joshua defeated on this side Jordan
The Bible does not condemn the two and half tribes who chose their inheritance on the other side Jordan, but neither does it ever really focus on them again. They come just short of God's promise.

Too many people in our world are like that. They trust the Lord for salvation but they never fully embrace the life God has for them. While they are not condemned neither are they included in many of God's blessings for His people. God in effect seems to "ignore" them. It is not that He doesn't love them; it is merely that they don't account for the working of God in this world. God never gave up on those two and half tribes. Their names are recorded in the Word. But God's dealings with His people only records what happened inside the Promised Land.

If we have gotten saved, we would be better off being immersed in the life God plans for us.

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