An inheritance ....

The inheritance....

I was asked recently what I would do if I inherited a significant amount of money..how that would change my life....what a question!!!!

In my parent's generation, generation skipping estate planning was the accepted way to hand down an inheritance, whether small or great... So that is how they wrote their trust with me as their executor. It felt kind of deflating in one way, not even inheriting anything from my parents, but in another way, they wanted to help their grandchildren and great grandchildren with their educations...in a material sense...

But, I inherited a great deal from them, an example of a solid marriage, a

Christian upbringing, love, a sense of a comforting family....the list goes on, both good and some not so good things that have no material value, but are extremely important to life in general...an eternal inheritance...

Proverbs 13:22 A good person leaves an inheritance for their children’s children, but a sinner’s wealth is stored up for the righteous. 

We see people winning the mega bucks or other jackpots with money beyond our comprehensions...it changes their lifestyles or not, depending on how they view money...some are totally broke in a few years with lives ruined by the excess and others are still solid who have made plans to spend wisely...we have great choices in our culture...that can go for $5 or $50 million...a temporal inheritance...

..but as Christians we have an inheritance that is ours...God Himself....an inheritance that has  the greatest of value, of which we, in our finite minds, only comprehend in part...we are blessed beyond any measure by His giving ...

Thank YOU for Your great inheritance ....sealed with the Holy Spirit, guaranteed, kept for us....eternal...help me the use it wisely....passing it on to future generations....that Hope only You give ...

Numbers 18:20 The Lord said to Aaron, “You will have no inheritance in their land, nor will you have any share among them; I am your share and your inheritance among the Israelites. 

Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he chose for his inheritance. 

Acts 20:32 “Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified. 

Ephesians 1:13-14, 18-19 And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. 

When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, 

who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God’s possession—to the praise of his glory. 

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. 

That power is the same as the mighty strength ....

1 Peter 1:3-4 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 

and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you...