Daily Journal: 12 October

Land Surveyance

Have you ever conducted a personal land surveyance? Have you ever written a description of the parts that make up your life? Have you ever returned to the Lord with that survey and talked about it with Him? Would you know what God wants to do with your survey?

Joshua 18:8 (NIV)

… “Go and make a survey of the land and write a description of it. Then return to me,…”

Why did God require His people to walk the land, write a description and return to Him with it?

They needed to know what God was giving them, how He wanted to apportion it and how they were to operate in it to receive the inheritance planned for them.

There are significant lots in our land that we call our life. A land survey typically covers boundary lines, characteristics and features of the land. A personal land survey might include things like family, work/school, friends, activities, commitments, property, assets, church & community, charity work, hobbies, health & fitness, spiritual growth & well-being.

Boundary lines are what we choose to accept or not accept onto our land – the people, the limits and the things that denote our personal values. Surveying the unique characteristics and features of our land allows us to plan and create a design to build by. In bringing our land survey before the Lord, we allow Him to command spiritual legal land conflicts and understand our ownership rights and responsibilities so that we fulfil our inheritance.

Joshua 18:9 (NIV)

So the men left and went through the land. They wrote its description on a scroll, town by town, in seven parts, and returned to Joshua in the camp at Shiloh.

God apportioned land to the Israelites and told them to possess it.

You might like to ask yourself this:

Have I taken possession of every aspect of the land God's given me? Am I working on it with Him? Do I know enough about my land and its topography (character and features) to possess and develop it fully? Am I removing and driving out what doesn’t belong? Do I know my legal rights?

Joshua 1:3 (NLT)

I promise you what I promised Moses: ‘Wherever you set foot, you will be on land I have given you—