“In Joshua 13:14, we are told that the Levites had no land for an inheritance, but instead had the sacrifices Israel brought to God. They also received a greater inheritance than that: God Himself.”
“In this sense, if there is any tribe that Christians are spiritually connected to, it is the tribe of Levi. We also are called priests (1 Peter 2:5) and have a special inheritance in God (Ephesians 1:11, Colossians 1:12, and 1 Peter 1:4).”
“Many of us are dissatisfied with our place before God. We wish He would have given us something different, and we can even get bitter towards God about this. The primary answer to this is to see ourselves as priests and to understand that our real inheritance is God Himself.” (Guzik)
Something Different!
I’ve seen many people that are bitter towards God because they blame Him for their troubles, health etc. We need to use the Book of Job as an example, he lost everything and had boils from the top of his head to the tip of his toes! His wife told him to curse God and die!
Job 1:21 saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
In our human condition when things are going well we tend to praise God. But when things go bad we tend to get angry with Him! May we all learn to have Job’s attitude when things are bad and say,
Blessed be the name of the LORD.
Can you praise God in bad times?
Blessings
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