Daily Journal: 12 October

Land Surveying

and Land Surveillance

Have you ever conducted a personal land survey of your life? Have you ever written a description of all the parts that make up your life and returned to the Lord to talk 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. Land surveying and land surveillance is importance for the structure of our lives and whether we live in peace.

We might think of a land survey as including healthy boundaries, character, and our spiritual outlook that distinguish us from non-believers. When we think of land surveillance, we might consider situational and behavioural awareness, security and border management, pattern detection and spiritual criminal activity over everything from people dynamics and personal interactions, to activities and commitments; from property and assets, to well-being and the building of our purpose.

Boundary lines would be what we choose to accept or reject on our land – the people, and the things that reflect our personal values. In the same context, 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. Land surveillance ensures we prosper under spiritual legal ownership rights and responsibilities so that we can possess our Godly 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? How will I work on it with Him?

Joshua 1:3 (NLT)

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

Lord, thank you that you have given us land to possess. Help us to become familiar with the topography of what you've apportioned us and dispose of what should not be within our boundary lines.