Land

To you will I give the land . . . 

 - From Psalm 105

It is very critical for us to remember, maybe always, that the promised inheritance to Abraham, and therefore to Isaac, Jacob, and all of their sons . . . was for land.

You can have all the possessions in the world. But what good is it without land? You need a place to store your things. You need a place to grow crops and livestock, to provide for yourself!

God seems to value . . . very highly . . . the simple act of fellowship. If we must have one material possession, let it be land. Because we can make the land productive. And it can be made productive, only to provide for our basic needs for survival. God takes care of that.

If we consider a Heavenly realm where spirits exist in some non-corporeal form . . . even there, our image of the place is that there are things. There are places to sit. There are frames of reference which tell me that I am here . . . but you are over there . . . and the Lord is in the center, and really, throughout everywhere.

But a sense of place seems to give it purpose. People that focus on Heaven still think of it as a place.

Land represents place. It is something we understand. Look as far as you can see: to the East, West, North, and South - and all of it is yours, and your family forever. God described land to Abraham, and it gave the promise meaning. 

There is a place. A spot - - - a location. And we will all be there. Maybe we're sitting. Maybe we're standing. But we're somewhere. And we are somewhere, forever, without death and without sickness or want. (Because if you're immortal, what do you need?)

And why a place? 

Because God wants to be with us. He wants to be around us. And He wants us to be with Him. He wants us to be around Him.

When reading social media today . . . take note of how almost everything has to do with our desire to be somewhere specific . . . with specific people. That's everything to us. 

It's everything to God.