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Lonely Hearts
I spent two weeks out in Washington State.
The company is great.
The people are fantastic.
I spent most of the evenings absolutely miserable.
Living out of a hotel for two weeks is awful.
It is a fun adventure for a day.
Then I’m exploring the area around.
And then...
I am separated from my family.
I am separated from my friends.
I am isolated from my people, my place, my whole way of life.
I know this sounds over dramatic, but this was a reality of my heart.
Night after night, just truly and painfully lonely.
And it was almost an identity thing for me.
Who am I that I should be so radically affected so quickly?
All it takes is removing me from my family, my friends, my home, my church, my previous work, my habits, my… well removed from all of that, really, who am I?
I’m a nerd, so in my head that question goes who am I (from Les Miserables).
Who Am I?
Where do I belong?
I got extremely sick of eating out, so several nights I just ate at the closest restaurant which was the hotel bar.
And I learned something.
You meet some interesting people at hotel bars.
Person after person telling me their life stories, with varying degrees of soberness.
I got extremely sick of eating out, so several nights I just ate at the closest restaurant which was the hotel bar.
And I learned something.
You meet some interesting people at hotel bars.
Person after person telling me their life stories, with varying degrees of soberness.
You know what the common theme was in the hotel bar?
They are wrestling with their self identity.
They are desperately trying to find out where they belong.
And they are looking for belonging in some terrible places… and they know they are terrible, and know they are just pouring out to a stranger in a bar because they don’t know how to find answers to those questions.
Encountering other lonely hearts at the hotel bar.
Maybe you have that question, are feeling that need for belonging.
We all go through seasons of it… because at some level our very soul knows that there is more.
That there has to be more to who we are and where we are than what we’ve figured out so far!
Maybe that question is pressing in on you now.
Maybe it has in the past and you have already found some answers.
But I can tell you this for sure: you are surrounded by people asking these questions.
“Who am I?
Where do I belong?”
Who Am I?
Where do I belong?
The soul yearns for a home.
Who are my people?
Where do I belong?
Is this what I get?
Joshua tells the story of a people who are not us conquering a land that is not ours, and we don’t live there now.
So it is the perfect place to find out answers.
Conquering the Land
Meaning of inheritance.
Joshua tells the story of a people who are not us conquering a land that is not ours, and we don’t live there now.
So it is the perfect place to find out answers.
tells the story of the people of Israel entering the Land of Canaan, crossing the Jordan, and conquering the majority of the land.
They are commanded to be strong and courageous, that Yahweh will always be with them.
And step by step, they learn that lesson.
Under the leadership of Joshua, they defeat enemy after enemy and God drives out their enemies before them.
They win.
God wins.
The Kingdom wins.
So now they have all this land.
So the book of Joshua now turns.
And we get .
And it just got real.
They have all this land and it is time to dole out the spoils.
Chapter 13 summarizes the inheritance east of the Jordan and some of the lands yet to conquer.
Then it really gets going in 14:
Who conquered which kings: Moses or Joshua?
Who got which land?
In excruciating detail
Excruciating Detail
It’s like if I described the outlines of our church property.
From the stone by the road to the large three pronged oak tree.
Along the stream to the north until you get to the turn, then straight west along the gully.
These are the outlines, the property lines.
And one by one, the inheritance of each tribe is laid out.
Joshua 15:1-12
Tribe by tribe.
City by city.
The allotment for
Who Am I?
Gad (13), Judah (15), Ephraim and Manasseh (16-17), Benjamin (18), Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Ashar, Naphtali, Dan (19)
Those are family names.
This is a family story.
The family dynamics continue to shape the tribal dynamics, the national dynamics.
This is a family story, and this word is used over and over.
Inheritance.
What does it mean?
Why is this in the Bible?
Inheritance
Why is this tedious stuff in the Bible?
Page upon page, chapter upon chapter.
Inheritance then means the same as how we use it.
Passed down from generation to generation.
My father had it, he passed it down to me, my son now has it.
Eyebrows constantly trying to take over my entire face.
That is an inheritance.
Father to son to son.
Why do they get this stuff?
Is it because they are the best?
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