You’re Named in God’s Will
Acts 20:32
Linda Knox was in her eighties when she died of malnutrition in her Chicago apartment. Apparently she’d lost her sight and her mind had failed. Among her belongings they found she had an estate worth £492,000 – yet she died alone in poverty.
The worst of it is she’d drawn up a will leaving these things to friends and family members. But she never filed it with the courts and it was never executed, so her beneficiaries were unaware of their inheritance.
There’s a lesson here for you. When Christ died and went back to heaven, He left a will. And you are named in it! You say, ‘Where can I find a copy?’ In His Word! You’re an ‘[heir] of God and a [co-heir] with Christ’ (Romans 8:17). Once that truth gets down into your soul, your attitude toward reading the Bible will be revolutionised. You’ll start meditating ‘day and night’ in the Scriptures.
As a result, you’ll start to ‘prosper in all that you do’ (Joshua 1:8; Psalms 1:2-3).
Now you can understand why David said, ‘I will delight myself in Your commandments, which I love. The law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of coins of gold and silver’ (Psalms 119:47, 72).
Peter wrote: ‘His divine power has given us everything we need for life. He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature’ (2 Peter 1:3-4). What more could you ask for?
- Acts 20:32
Someone’s last will and testament lets you know what you have inherited. In the Old Testament the benefits were rich, but the conditions proved too restrictive. So God gave us a New Testament.
But instead of laws that are virtually impossible to keep, this ‘testament’ is based on grace: Favour you don’t deserve, can’t earn and don’t have to work for because it’s given freely. When you discover you are personally named in this ‘testament’, reading the Bible becomes a real source of joy.
You start asking, ‘What’s in God’s will for me? What’s my rightful inheritance?’ You realise your salvation, as glorious as it is, is just the starting point. Suddenly the idea of searching the Scriptures, standing on the Scriptures and speaking the Scriptures in every situation no longer feels like a duty, but a delight.
When you pray according to Scripture, it’s like going to the bank of heaven and saying, ‘This cheque is made out to me. It’s issued and endorsed by Christ, and I’d like to cash it.’
You have two options: You can live a Christian life and die without ever having accessed your account because you never discovered your inheritance and the benefits of God’s will for you. Or you can pray: ‘Father, Christ’s last will and testament names me personally.
It says that all my needs will be met, my steps will be directed, my sicknesses will be healed, and that I don’t have to fear satan because You gave me power over him’ (Luke 10:19).
NOW can you see why satan doesn’t want you reading your Bible?!
Soul food: Gen 3-6, Eph 2-3, Ps 12
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