There was still more land to be allocated. The problem was that some of the tribes were not taking action to take possession of the land that the Lord had given to them. There is an obvious spiritual lesson to be learnt here. There are areas of life that God has given to us, but we fail to take possession of these areas. In fact this is a pattern from the very beginning, for in Genesis God commanded man to take dominion and subdue the earth. It is a great mystery that we rebelled against God thinking that we would gain freedom but in actual fact became helpless. When we come back to God we regain freedom and authority, but we have a terrible job realising that this is so. We live so much of our lives as if we are still weak and helpless, and we are afraid to exercise authority. This runs very deep in our souls and it is part of the work of the Holy Spirit to enable us to realise the authority we have and to learn how to exercise it.
The people finally get a hold of the message and put it into practice and the land is allocated to them.
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