Now, suppose I have a family heirloom. I can only pass it along while I am alive or after I die, but not both. If we look into our eternal inheritance form God, we discover that it’s an inheritance passed on through both the will of the Father who has not died and through the Son who has died! Because God is not like us, He has chosen to pass our inheritance to us both ways.

If you have a concordance, look up all of the references to inherit or inheritance from God. Limit yourself only to the Old Testament. Do you think anyone who read or heard these words thought that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was going to have to die to receive the inheritance? Of course not. By faith they were simply looking forward to the day God would keep His promise and pass their inheritance on to them.

Remember the rich young ruler who asked Jesus how he could inherit eternal life. Do you believe he was thinking that Jehovah would have to die for him to receive eternal life? No, he was just looking for a list of good deeds that would guarantee him eternal life. By refusing to give up his wealth and follow Jesus, he missed following the Lord to His cross and His resurrection which provided the eternal life he wanted; he just didn’t want it that badly.

What you have received from the Father through the Son staggers the imagination. Think of your inheritance from God as a treasure chest. Within that chest are jewels, pearls, and coins of gold and silver. Each one has a value, beauty and meaning which take your breath away.

Now, view each piece in that chest as a specific gift within your inheritance as a child of God. Where you are right now, what you’re doing or not doing, whether married or single, childless or hip-deep in kids, rich or poor or middle-class, none of it can ever change who you are or what you have inherited in the new covenant. The entire contents of your treasure chest are the many blessings, which make up your identity in Jesus Christ.

Don’t ever forget how special your relationship is to the Father. Remember that being God’s child means you are Jesus’ brother and He is your Brother. It’s the only way you or I could be described as co-heirs with Him (Galatians 4:7; Romans 8:17). Think on what it means – that both Jesus and any child of God, call God “Abba, Father” (Mark 14:36; Romans 8:15; Galatians 4:6).

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