- The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance. Joshua 16:4 – This passage to us seems like a simple stating of a fact, but to the people of Joseph this was the fulfillment of a long awaited promise. Think about it all…after forty years of wandering in the desert, stepping into foreign lands and having to battle your way through it all, and now finally what you’ve waited and fought so hard for actually comes. What we see is that we have a God that doesn’t fail to keep His promises to us. Yes in the process of the fulfillment of those promises it might take awhile and a good amount of our own working, know that God always comes through. So whatever promise you are holding unto that God has made to you through scripture, know He will never let you down. Pray for patience and understanding because there may be some “wandering in the wilderness” for you as well, but know God always comes through on the promises He makes. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac
- Joshua 16 Daily DEVO However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor. Joshua16:10 – What’s your reasoning for not driving out what God has told you to remove from your story? What we learn from this passage is if we don’t remove it when God says to remove it, we will have to make room for it in the next chapter of our life. Some things though shouldn’t be in our next chapter. Some things in the next chapter won’t be in your story because the space in your life that they would have taken is filled up with the old things God told you to remove that you didn’t. Our letting go of these things opens space for the new blessings God wants to place in our story. Our holding on says to God we are content and aren’t interested in the blessings He wants to give us. Let go when God says to let go. Drive out when God says to drive out. If we don’t, we’ll miss the better blessing God had planned for us to help us grow. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 1180
- Joshua 16 – Pastor Mac Daily DEVO The people of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, received their inheritance. Joshua 16:4 – We are in the part of Joshua where each tribe of Israel is getting outlined what land in the promise land will be theirs. Here we see Manasseh and Ephraim getting their lands, but what’s unique about this is that Manasseh and Ephraim were children of Joseph, not Joseph’s dad Jacob. All the other tribes were children of Jacob, Manasseh and Ephraim would have been grandchildren of Jacob. Why then were they being included here in the allotment of lands when no other grandkids did? When you unpack Genesis 48 you learn that Joseph, even though not the firstborn, received the blessing of firstborn which included a double portion of inheritance from Jacob. Due to the faithfulness of Jospeh and the sins of the older brothers, Jospeh was blessed by Jacob and God with this double portion of land in the promise land. Why I bring up all those historical pieces is to show how God truly does bring blessing as a result of our faithfulness to Him. When a follower of God is truly seeking to follow the Lord, they can be assured the Lord sees this and will bless that walk. Now that may not mean blessing financially, new cars, or private jets, but blessing nevertheless. Blessing like joy in seasons of trial. Blessings on your children and your children’s children. Blessings of opportunities to share the gospel. See for Jospeh, he didn’t walk into the promise land with the nation of Israel for he lived close to 500 years prior to this time. Yet centuries later God is still blessing, and so will God in our story. Choose then today to live faithfully after God. Not because of the blessings, but knowing full well that God does bless those that pursue Him. I love you, but Jesus loves you more – Mac – Daily DEVO 2475
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