June 01, 2013 by David Legge
I think we would be accurate in saying that the children of Israel truly walked with God, literally. But we see from the story of the tribes of Reuben and Gad in Numbers 32 that they stopped short of what God had intended as their destiny. They settled on the wrong side of the Jordan. God had intended them to cross the Jordan, to go west into the Promised Land of Canaan, but Gad and Reuben - who had livestock - decided that the land east of Jordan was better and they would settle there. They stopped short of what God had intended as their destiny. They settled for less than their inheritance...
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