"Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses." Joshua 1:3
It was a primitive custom to measure out by foot the land to be cultivated or built upon. The Israelites were to have only as much of that land as they actually trod with the soles of their feet. Theirs was a bountiful promise, but it was to be realized only by their own exertion.
Only as we march forward in faith, claiming the promises, do they become ours. We have the Bible, and may think we know it well; yet of this vast field of unlimited treasures we may in reality possess no more than a mere fragment. Only that which we appropriate to ourselves is our own. The same is true of the privilege and blessings of grace. It is limited only by the bounds we ourselves put upon it.