The Grand Everlasting Inheritance
“Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. According to His great mercy, He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you. You are being protected by God’s power through faith for a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.” (1 Peter 1:3-5)
When a person is born again, they have passed from death to life (John 5:24). They are, as Peter says in the Scripture, born into the hope and promise of eternal life. This salvation is a gift from God because of His great mercy. The grace He bestows is irresistible and unable to be thwarted by the might of man and the power of sin. This promise, Peter says, will not perish and we are being kept by His power through faith.
How great He is that although we are weak, He is strong. His perfect holiness is beyond what we could ever hope to accomplish of our own accord. This gift of His, that we who will believe on Him shall possess eternal life, is truly unequaled. Even more profound is it that those in Christ have been foreknown and predestined from before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:3-6).
At every turn, Christ’s love for His children, the elect of God, has been provided for His glory, to which our salvation testifies. Thanks be to the Lord that we are no longer bound to the misery of sin nature, but have been adopted by our loving Father (Romans 8:12-17). Glorious and victorious is Christ Jesus, whose precious blood redeemed us from our iniquity (1 Peter 1:18-19).
This grand inheritance, then, is nothing to scoff at. By the life, death, and resurrection of God’s Only Son, He has preserved for Himself a chosen people. They were and are not worthy by their own deeds, but by the imparted righteousness of Christ Jesus. Death no longer has its sting for the believer in Christ (1 Corinthians 15:55-57).
Let us not soil our new standing in God, but embrace the eternal gift and the knowledge of His imminent return. Be ever vigilant and thankful to Him who created us anew and saved us from our sin. He is a good God, the only God, our wondrous Hope from Above.
Be assured that He who started a good work in you will see it to fruition (Philippians 1:6). He who has granted His grace is just and merciful, ever faithful in sanctifying His children (1 Thessalonians 5:23-24). The everlasting inheritance given to His children will forever show that He is loving and that those who shine with His love are His (1 John 4:7).
Know that as we soon celebrate His first coming, He does not delay His second (2 Peter 3:9).
Merry Christmas, have a great upcoming holiday weekend, and God bless.
