TODAY’S TURNING POINT WITH DR. DAVID JEREMIAH DAILY DEVOTIONAL 5 AUGUST 2024 MESSAGE
Read David Jeremiah Daily Devotional 5 August 2024, Monday Turning Point Devotional Message
TOPIC: God’s Inheritances
[I pray] that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints. – Ephesians 1:18
Recommended Reading: Colossians 1:9-12
In his latter years, a grandfather tells his grandson that in his will he is leaving the young man a piece of property. But then he says something unexpected: “This property is your inheritance, my gift to you. But I also want you to know that you have been my inheritance; you have been God’s gift to me.”
The apostle Paul uses both senses of inheritance in Ephesians 1. In verses 13-14, he says the Holy Spirit is the “guarantee of our inheritance”—our eternal life with God which is His gift to us. But then in verse 18, Paul speaks of “His inheritance in the saints.” In some mysterious way, God sees us, His saints, as His eternal inheritance. Just as the grandfather found pleasure and joy in the life of his beloved grandson, so God “takes pleasure in His people” (Psalm 149:4).
On days when you find it hard to take pleasure in your behavior or potential, know this: You are God’s inheritance, a source of pleasure and joy forevermore (Psalm 16:11).
An inheritance is not only kept for us, but we are kept for it.
Richard Sibbes
Read-Thru-the-Bible: Jeremiah 6 – 8
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