Proverbs 10: Living in God's Land

I believe we all want to live in the land of God. I don’t think you would be reading this if you did not want to live in God’s land.

So what does it take?

Verse 30 says, “The righteous will never be removed, but the wicked will not dwell in the land.”

In the context of the Old Testament as a whole, this is directly referring to the land of Israel that God had promised to Abraham. But the application, or the principle, is much broader. To go to the land that God has promised us takes being righteous. We of course know from Romans 3:10-11 that we are not righteous for it says: “as it is written, ‘none is righteous, no, not one; no one understand, no seeks after God.”

So how can we enter into the land God has for us? The answer is found in the book of Genesis.
Genesis 15:6 says, “And he believed the Lord and he counted it to him as righteousness.”

Believing in God is what was counted as righteousness for Abraham, and it is what will count as righteousness for us.  We cannot be righteous outside of this.