All or nothing. If you want the best you forgo the rest. Yahweh was offering long ago to Aaron the best possible inheritance, but he had to forgo any other inheritance. We can look at this two ways. One way is to think of the fact that Aaron and the Levites had no land, no this, no that. Wow. What they had to give up. At this point the Jim Elliot quote is helpful: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Today the lands of Israel are a continued and constant issue of war and conflict, and yet YAHWEH remains untouched by war. He cannot be conquered or overtaken. Yet he offers himself in the early pages of the Bible to a most unlikely person - Aaron.
Just start reading about Aaron and you will be frustrated with him and possibly identify with him. He lies, he complains, he worships idols, and he is jealous about Moses. Aaron also experiences tragedy. His sons die instantaneously. He lost that which was most dear to him. He saw how fleeting this life is.
This Aaron is offered YAHWEH as an inheritance.
How much more are we, the royal priesthood through Jesus Christ the eternal high priest, offered YAHWEH, offered Father, Son, Spirit, as an inheritance?
Our children are offered God Himself. We must share that inheritance with them, even as the FATHER shares it with us. We must also show our children that to let go of all other things we cling to He who can not be taken from us.
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