The Great Inheritance

The system of sorting, routing and delivering mail these days is somewhat sophisticated compared to forty or fifty years ago. The continued increase in the price to send a piece of mail would make you think the efficiency of mail service might increase, too.  I will show my age by saying I can remember when a simple postcard sent to family members about once a week was the only communication we had.  For those of you who were born during the electronic age, we haven't always had email and instant messaging. 

I do remember when a letter cost 3 cents to mail and a postcard cost 2 cents. The penny postcard had already doubled in price in my early remembrances. The only problem with postcards was, by the time they were delivered to your house, you wondered how many times the mail handlers had read them.  

In one family I know, everyone was good friends with the mail man on the rural route. One family was especially close to him, and he would stop and walk the mail to their door each day and step inside and visit a while. Often he would make a comment about something someone had written to them on a postcard.  While there were really no secrets, it just made the family feel uneasy that the mailman was reading their postcards before they got to read them. 

A plan was put in place, and the family asked someone from another city to write them a postcard with a one sentence message. "The inheritance is much larger than we originally thought." When the mailman brought the mail to the door that day, he was running!  He was breathless as he opened the door and announced the good news about their inheritance.  Everyone had a big laugh over that story back then, and when it's retold even to this day. 

That story makes me want to tell you today, "Your inheritance in Jesus Christ is much greater than you can imagine!" The Sunday sermon reminded me of some verses from scripture that are woven together to tell us about our eternal inheritance.  Hebrews 1:1-s says that God now speaks to us through his Son that he has appointed the heir of all things.  Romans 8:17 declares we are children of God, and if we are his children, then we are his heirs, joint-heirs with Jesus Christ.  That's' why Paul could assure the Ephesian Christians it is in Christ we have obtained an inheritance.  Then later Paul tells us the Holy Spirit has been given to us as a guarantee of the inheritance that is ours. 

Those verses are rich with truth that we sometimes overlook. We crater and crumble when we face life with only our fleshly strength and understanding. If we could only keep God's truth about our spiritual inheritance constantly on our minds, we would realize that this world can do nothing to us that will separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus.  We are joint heirs with Jesus because we are God's children.  Praise God today for the place of spiritual royalty he has reserved for you. The inheritance is larger than you can imagine!

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