Give It Away!

We need to contend for our inheritance - those promises God has deposited in our hearts.

Not just for our personal lives but for those who will come after us. Sadly, we can spend our entire life with a single focus of retiring with a enough assets, money and possessions to make our final days comfortable.

Yes, we are to be wise and careful in how we spend and invest our finances. However, God's economy is very different from the world's system of storing, hoarding and holding back. He is God who gives freely and He is our example to imitate.

In the Old Testament we read of five daughters securing an inheritance in the Promise Land in Numbers 27:7-8 and in Numbers 36. There at least three valuable lessons we can learn in preparing the future for those who will come after us.

1. We learn to contend not be contentious when grasping the promises of God – the daughters asserted their father had died in
his own sin and was not part of the rebellion of Korah. In other words, they contended for their own righteousness
because their father had no part in Korah's sin.

2. We learn that marital and social standing was not going to be a hindrance in obtaining the promise of a goodly and godly
heritage. These were single women had no brothers or husbands to secure their inheritance. Yet these women understood
their inheritance (like ours in Christ) needed no social or worldly ties or approval.

3. We learn these women honored the law and did not refute it but rather stated their case in a non-confrontational way –
they stated the facts, not their opinion. One irrefutable fact was they carried their father’s blood in them (they were
his daughters after all) and it should be enough to secure them a heritage – regardless to being without brothers,
husbands or sons or their gender.

These women had secured a life and a future for the next generation. Later they did marry within the confines of their tribe obeying the Lord's instruction to keep their inheritance.

Beloved, God has deposited His Holy Spirit in our lives. And all the promises are yes and amen in Christ - but many of them are not for us to store up and reserve for a rainy day but to give it away!