Thursday, October 24, 2024

What Is Your Inheritance?

"that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,
the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints."
Ephesians 1:17-18 (NKJV)

An inheritance is something that you receive from someone, usually a relative, after that person has died, and it is not something you earn or choose for yourself.  Depending on the family you are a part of, that person who died may leave you money, some possession, or even in some cases an official title.  Someone else in the family might receive something different than you as an inheritance, but you are not allowed to just take what someone else has and try to make it yours, each person is given their own inheritance.

The Bible has a lot to say about our inheritance in Christ.  Colossians 1:12 says that we have been qualified to be partakers of the inheritance, so it is not something that we earn.  While all the things we need to live a godly life have been provided for us through Jesus (2 Peter 1:3), we need to know specifically what God wants each of us to take hold of as our part of the inheritance in Christ.  We do not just pick our own inheritance, God is the One who gives it to us, and He will show us our part in the overall inheritance of Christ, and how to make use of it in our life.

In Ephesians 1, Paul prayed that believers would understand the inheritance we have in Christ.  As a part of God's family, because of what Jesus did for us through His death and resurrection, we have an inheritance in Christ.  That inheritance belongs to all of us, but there are some things that belong to us individually as a part of God's plan for our life.  For example, Psalm 2:8 says that we can claim the nations for our inheritance, but Psalm 47:4 says that God will choose our inheritance for us.  We learn about our inheritance in the Word of God, and with the help of the Holy Spirit, we can learn what our part of the inheritance is.

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