INHERITANCE
July 13, 2020
I will give you a treasure. It will be your inheritance.
These words, inheritance and treasure, receive their significance in the reality of the allocations. The mind can rationalize throughout the period of promise while treasure remains intangible.
All inheritors hope in the promise while all remains a promise. What happens on the day the promise is fulfilled, when hope becomes reality; when deeds are issued and seekers become the bequeathed?
Allocated assets enter balance sheets. Future net earnings are calulated. Improvements determine based upon their return on investments. Fortunes are made in these declarations of allocations. Yet, not all land is the same; not all fortunes are equal. The inheritances will be different.
The differences do not matter while they remain a promise. Something is better than nothing lasts until something become something.
The satisfaction of the heart is tested when comparison becomes unavoidable. It seems the greatest test resides with those examined with intangible promises while others are scheduling meetings with their accountants.
The mind can reason that God is better. He is a treasure, a pearl of great price, better than anything the world can offer. The tangible inheritors might even agree.
What does the heart believe when others take up residence in the land you have walked through, the possessions you have fought for, the assets you have suffered for.
The balance sheets will quantify the comparison between tangible and that which is not.
- What if the Baptists received Wall Street, New York City and all the businesses that call it home;
- The Episcopals got Google, Apple, and all of Silicon Valley;
- The Methodists got Amazon, Seattle and the Pacific Northwest;
- The Lutherans got all the resources of Texas,
- While the Presbyterians received Alaska?
On and on, the allocations go but you are told that these fortunes are not yours to hold. Your inheritance is God. How would your mind value the allocations as the balance sheets are told?
Would your reasoning, God is a treasure surpassing all earthly wealth, determine that you received the most valuable of all inheritance? How will your contentment weather the reality of others taking possession of their new wealth?
Our eyes are so quick to turn evil to the generosity of God. Our chameleon hearts change rapidly when confronted by God’s unequal gifts.
Has God done us wrong by giving as our gift, Himself?
Perhaps, we have been set apart, holy unto Him; spared from that which God knows will corrupt.
Have you ever considered that prosperity absent holiness is never a gift? Wealth in unrighteousness is always a curse.
Our inheritance does not come in this world. We are like the tribe of Levi, content in the best of inheritance!
A DEVOTED LIFE 
Praise God he knows what he’s doing, he knows what we’re made of, remembering we are dust. Once we’re set free from corruption, then we’ll be able to truly enjoy our inheritance, in ways we never could now. A thought-provoking post, JD!