“In those days there was no king in Israel.”
Judges 18 opens with the tribe of Dan searching for their inheritance. The land is in chaos as they send representatives to see what options are available to them.
The real issue with Dan was that their inheritance was already given to them. It was in the land of the Philistines, and they didn’t possess the faith to reach out and take it. They searched for an easier way, and they found it by warring against a defenseless people in a completely different part of Israel.
The story of Dan is the story of the modern-day church. We look through our stained-glass windows, and the situations popping up all around us are frightening. Drug dealers are winning our children, politicians can’t be honest if they try, and financial institutions we thought we could trust steal more of our money every day. We turn inward, sing the newest gospel choruses, and try our best to ignore the evil all around us.
1 Peter 2:9 gives us our right to claim our inheritance:
“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.”
It’s time to step from our church walls with our swords held high, to proclaim that we won’t accept less than Christ’s full promises, and to claim the good inheritance. We can’t be satisfied with easy victories, telling ourselves that we looked away from the drunk on the street, we avoided a homeless man, and we dropped a dollar in the Salvation Army pot. We must resolve to do more. Our inheritance is the world. Our duty is to win it for Christ.
Only in searching for the truth of our Lord will we find our inheritance flowing from his hand unto ours.
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