INHERITANCE

“In Him…we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory” (Ephesians 1:11-12, NKJV). It seems that a Christian’s inheritance is the privilege of being “to the praise of His glory”. Not what you were hoping for? Oh, we’ll get mansions and streets of gold too, but that’s not the best part. When we see God’s glory, His love that is better than life, and His beautiful character, the only thing we’ll want is to praise Him. But it’ll be better than that: we will BE to the praise of His glory, meaning that we’ll be like Him and our lives will shine forth His glory; we’ll be participants in it. We will experience oneness with our beautiful, holy, glorious, loving Jesus! We can begin to experience this the day we are born again. First Corinthians 6:17 says, “…he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.” Present tense.