Psalm 37:29

Psalm 37:29

Who will inherit the Land? 

That is the question posed at the beginning of this Psalm and since then it has been answered in many different ways. Most of the verses of Psalm 30 contrast the actions and beliefs of the righteous and the wicked. At every twist and turn we have seen how the wicked devise schemes and plot to benefit themselves. The righteous, by contrast, hope in the Lord and seek to honour Him by serving others and doing good. The way of the wicked is cursed, they will be destroyed, their wealth and fame will last only for a while and then they will be no more. The righteous, we are told, will “dwell in the land forever.”

My friends, we have an amazing inheritance that awaits us. In Israel, at the time of David, it was primarily a physical inheritance, a patch of land between Egypt in the south and Lebanon in the north. For most Israelites that would be enough, to own their property and to be proud of it. David, and Joshua before him, did more than anyone to make that possible. But our inheritance is not a parcel of land or terrestrial property of any kind. Listen to some texts from the New Testament to get a better picture of what we are to expect, these are only a taster but they are worth spending time with. Meditate on these glorious truths and ponder the glory of what awaits those who will inherit!

Ephesians 1:14

When you believed you were marked in Christ with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession – to the praise of His glory. 

Ephesians 1:18

I pray that the eyes of your understanding may be enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of his calling, and the riches of the glory of his inheritance in his holy people. 

Colossians 1:12

Giving thanks unto the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light: 

Colossians 3:24

Knowing that of the Lord you shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for you serve the Lord Christ. 

1 Peter 1:4

He has given us new birth …. Into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. 

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