As the land east of the Jordan is being allocated to the various tribes, God says that the Levites should have no land allotted to them. Their inheritance, says the Lord here, is God himself (vs.33) and the privilege of worshipping God (vs.14). The significance of the Levites is that they were to represent the people and the calling of the people. They represented, in other words, something that all God’s people would be under the new covenant. God was calling his people to be a Kingdom of priests, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon us under the new covenant is what sets us all apart to fulfil this role. This means that what applied to the Levites then applies to you now. God has promised that his people will inherit the earth, that is, the new heavenly earth portrayed in Revelation 21. In the meantime, God himself is our inheritance and the worship of God our treasure. If we do not receive this inheritance in our day-to-day lives and if we abstain from enjoying the treasure of worship, naturally it creates a vacuum in our hearts that we will fill with worldly pursuits. But these pursuits can never fill that vacuum. Learn to enjoy God, for from this comes true joy and contentment. As the traditional proverb says: ‘The richest man is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least.’
Spend some time worshipping God today, with music if it is available to you.
Read Joshua 13 and 14
