A GLORIOUS INHERITANCE

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I recently enrolled in a Personal Enrichment program through Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. They offer an exciting variety of bible-related courses at an affordable price that you can complete at your own pace. Discovering this opportunity was a wonderful answer to prayer. With my passion for reading and learning, courses like these ignite my fire for God because they are packed with rich nuggets that help build up my faith.

I just completed a course on the book of Ephesians. One lesson in particular blew me away because it pointed out a verse I’d read countless times before but never really "saw." Ephesians 1:13 tells us Jesus Christ is our inheritance. “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.”

But what really struck me was the next part of this passage in verse 18: “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.” Not only do we gain an inheritance in Christ, but God gains an inheritance in us!

When I hear the word “inheritance” I think of wealth. How stunning that God prizes our faith so much as to consider us a worthy inheritance for Himself! Sometimes in light of all our sins and struggles it’s difficult to understand how we can be of any value to God. That’s why I appreciate the precious reminders in scripture that put the glory of my faith back into perspective.

“In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” (I Peter 1:6-7).