How long?

“So Joshua said to the Israelites, ‘How long will you wait before you begin to take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?” Joshua 18:3
Entering the Promised Land is an analogy of finding the abundant life that Jesus promised, where we are living in the power of the Holy Spirit. But for some of us, we may have entered the land and are just sitting on our laurels waiting for things to happen around us.
Just as the Israelites had to step out and go through the land taking hold of it, we have to get moving if we want to see the Spirit work through our lives. Are we going out of our way to help others and show them God’s love in action? Are we preaching the gospel, through our lives and our testimony? How much spiritual potential is sitting there, idle, because of our inaction? How long will we wait?