shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever.
Joshua 14:9
And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God
Numbers 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it
Numbers 32:12
‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me, none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord
Deuteronomy 11:22
For if you will be careful to do all this commandment that I command you to do, loving the Lord your God, walking in all his ways, and holding fast to him, then the Lord will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than you.
What does it mean to “Fully Follow God”? What do we use to determine if we are following Him fully? I remember 40 years ago it was normal to attend Sunday morning bible study, Sunday morning worship, Sunday evening worship, Wednesday evening prayer, and some morning or evening throughout the week in bible study. This was normal and considered to the region I lived. As I look around now the norm is to attend a worship service on Sunday morning and maybe a bible study once per week. What has changed? Our culture seems to have been able to pull us away from continually meeting together to worship, pray, fellowship, disciple making, and hold each other accountable. When this happens the first thing we leave behind is His word which leads to loss of focus and the repeated reminder of who God is and what our purpose is. God wants us to serve Him with our whole heart, mind, and soul. How is that possible if we live for Him straddling the fence of commitment? Out of the twelve that Moses sent to scout out the land only two were found to fully follow Him with a heart and mind and soul. I ask myself many times if I would be one of these two or one of the ten. There are times I am one of the two but more often than not I am one of the ten who sees the battle before me and am not seeing it in the hands of God and His awesome power, strength and might. Do you want rest from the battles before you – commit fully to serving God, give all your battles into His hands, and give the victory to His glory.
