God's Footstool

The Possession of the Land

The whole time, we have been moving toward the possession of the land that the Lord God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Yet through all our generations, we have not received it—because we have always stood in the way. We saw ourselves as the receivers, instead of seeing God as the rightful possessor.

The human in us became the idol before God. For centuries, Christianity has taught, “I am doing this for God.” Really? God does not need us to do it for Him—we have been doing it for ourselves, to make ourselves feel righteous. They are doing this in the fallen tree—the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, disguised as service.

But this next time, we take the land back—not for our own inheritance, but so that the Lord God may dwell upon it again. The land is not for us to own; it is for Him to inhabit. He has been waiting for this moment—waiting for us to step aside, so His presence can return to the earth.