"Provide for yourselves
three men from each tribe that I may send them, and that they may arise and
walk through the land and write a description of it according to their
inheritance; then they shall return to me." Joshua 18:4
Joshua was giving the leaders of the Israelites a vision of what the
God wanted for them to enjoy and possess. The Israelites had become passive and
were no longer pursuing their promised possession. Joshua moved them into
action be placing the vision of what God had for them before their eyes.
What is going to move us into action? Have you written a
"description" of what you want your life to look like five years from
now? ten years from now? Proverbs 29:18 says,
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." I think
that in today's world we could also say, "Where there is no vision, the
people get a big screen plasma television." Get up and "walk
through the land and write a description of it according to your
inheritance." Joshua's plan worked because we read in the very next
chapter:
"And the border of the children of Dan went beyond these, because the
children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem and took it; and they struck it
with the edge of the sword, took possession of it, and dwelt in it. They called
Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father." Joshua
19:47