162. We are God’s Inheritance
Deuteronomy 32:9 For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
God promises us a wonderful inheritance. All that belongs to God, that’s the glorious riches of everything, belongs to us upon the death of the Son of God, and the resurrection of Christ guarantees that inheritance to us. The promise of Land to Abraham and Israel is the Kingdom of God ruling in our hearts today by faith and kept in heaven for us in eternity, which we will enjoy by sight.
Turning that promise around it also means that we are God’s inheritance. Ephesians 1:18: “That you may know…what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints.” Here God says that God inherits us, His people, His church, His bride, and His children. We, the believers in Christ, are His inheritance. God inherits us when Jesus died and rose again. This makes us think differently about ourselves. We all, and just me as a part of that family group, are the Lord’s prized possession. He gets to inherit us and enjoy us forever. We, the whole Church, are the Kingdom of God. This is the specific purpose and the end result of God’s history of God’s salvation as written for us in the Scriptures.
Receiving an inheritance makes us happy. God receives us as His inheritance and it makes God happy. He rejoices over us when even one comes to repentance and salvation. We enter into the joy of the Lord. We inherit the kingdom prepared for us from the foundation of the world.
We are the portion of the Lord. An awful lot of history has transpired from the Beginning until Today and more will still transpire until the End. All of it has only one goal in mind: that God will have a people whom He can love and who will love Him. And He will have it. That’s a promise.