Glorious 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 what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come. – Ephesians 1.17-21

An inheritance is a wonderful thing. I’ve only been through receiving an inheritance a couple of times and neither was worth a whole lot of money, but it was still special. Some relative had left something for me and I received it. I think nearly everyone has that little hidden desire that there is some rich relative somewhere is going to leave us a fortune that will turn everything around.

We have looked at the inheritance here before, but since the Bible says so much about it I don’t think it hurts us to talk about it over and over. It is a vital truth and a great encouragement and blessing.

Here we read about the reaches of the glory of His inheritance. A lot of us may not have much in this world. We may have have the nicest car or biggest home. Some of us may struggle to make ends meet. We know that our God is here but we don’t all get all the material things that seem so important now.

When we get the inheritance though, and this is not a doubtful inheritance, it will change. Once days we are going to share in all the glories of its riches as we spend eternity with Him free from sin and cares and illness and sorry and woes.

What a day that will be!