When the Scripture teaches that every place that the sole of our foot will tread on has been given to us as our personal inheritance it is not signifying, obviously, that every place that the sole of our foot will tread in Heaven has been given to us as our inheritance. It is true, rather, that every place that the sole of our foot will tread in laying hold on eternal life in our personality, in attaining total union with Christ, and then in attaining rulership over the creation of God as the Lord directs, has been given to us as our eternal inheritance. We begin to enter our inheritance now—today, as our heavenly Joshua brings us from victory to victory.

It is important for the Christian to understand that the victories in Jesus that are being gained now will affect our lives for eternity.

The victorious saint will inherit all things.

Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. (I Corinthians 3:22,23)

We are to be entering our inheritance now. To desire to be with the Lord is a righteous and scriptural attitude. But in many instances God has great riches that are available to us now, and we must look carefully to Him if we are to be able to take full advantage of the present opportunities.

We must remain ever watchful in prayer, for it is time now to take the Kingdom. That which God has for us is being set before us or soon will be set before us, and we must march into that area and conquer it through the grace of Christ.

If we are busy in the perishing things and duties of the present world we may miss the coming of the Lord to us through the Spirit. We may find ourselves attempting to prop up a "dead Moses" when the Lord Jesus has come to set the stage for the climactic battles that finally will bring the Kingdom of God to the earth.

God has something wonderful for us to inherit, but we must give ourselves wholly to Christ in order to determine His will for our life. If we are absorbed in what we are doing (even in church work) we may miss the hour of our visitation. We are to enter the Kingdom now, as the Lord leads us. Watch carefully and pray much, for He comes when we least expect Him.

From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. (Joshua 1:4)

God notified the Israelites of the main boundaries of their land of promise, but the inheritance of each person came about through his own faith, diligence, and courage. So it is in the Christian inheritance. The Scriptures describe the main boundaries of what we are to possess. But the inheritance of the individual saint depends to a certain extent on his own faith, diligence, and courage.

Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said. (Joshua 14:12) (from From Egypt to Canaan)