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Claiming the Will - Part 3 - The Collective Inheritance

by Jerry Ousley  
11/09/2012 / Christian Living

When making a will there are two aspects where you can specify what each one included in it can receive. The first part is what I call "the collective will" and the second part is what I call "the individual will." For instance, when Deb and I made our wills a good part of what we will leave behind includes what money we have and how our insurance proceeds should be divided. We have elected to have those funds divided equally between our children.

Then there are some personal items which we feel would be better left to one of our children. There are some things that a woman would just cherish more. So we've left those items to our daughter. On the same note there are some things we feel our son would value more and so we have left those items to him.

The will of God is also like that. There are some items He has given to us collectively. In other words we all share in them equally. There are some things God has given to each and every believer who comes to Him in salvation. We'd like to talk about those things for a moment.

First of all there is eternal life. That's a hard one for us to imagine. We have been trained and conditioned to believe that we all have a beginning and an end. We want the in-between to be as long as possible, but we all know that there is coming a day when our lives will expire. But in Jesus Christ we have the opportunity to really live forever. In reality we all will exist forever; but there is a big difference in that existence. We go on forever because each of us has a soul that will not pass away. We have a choice. We can choose to not come to Jesus Christ with a consequence of dying forever. Dying is really just another way of saying that we have been separated. When we die physically we are separated from our loved ones left here on this planet. But when we die forever, it means that we have separated ourselves from God forever. That's a terrible thought. The result will be that those not accepting Jesus Christ will eventually be cast into a lake of fire where they will experience the horror of death forever. That's just not a good thought.

On the other hand, when we come to Jesus Christ, after we have been separated from our loved ones and this earth we will be able to live forever with the Lord. Now that's exciting. For ages men have looked for a fabled fountain of youth. The thought is that one could drink from that fountain and remain young forever. There is no such place physically. But spiritually we can drink from Jesus Christ and be assured that we can live with God forever. This is a portion of our inheritance that all coming to God will receive.

Secondly we receive salvation from impending doom. Without Christ we are all found guilty of sin and the penalty for that sin is death not just physical death but eternal death. It is the fate of each of us without Christ. But when we come to Him we inherit being saved from that doom. We have been justified in Jesus Christ and we are no longer in danger of this impending doom.

Then we receive freedom from the bondage of law. I don't mean that we no longer have to obey the law, but that the Law given to Moses that outlined what had to be done to be righteous before God, has been removed from us. Christ has fulfilled it for us.

We also receive redemption from the curse God had to place on the world way back when Adam and Eve sinned in Eden. That curse is reversed and nullified in Jesus Christ.

We receive a love relationship not only with God, but with our true brothers and sisters in Christ when we come to Jesus. We grow in that love but it is there. The world will never understand this because it is incapable of such a true love as this. But it's ours in Jesus Christ.

We become victorious over the devil. He wants to enslave us and ultimately kill us. But in Jesus we become the victor instead of the victim.

Finally we receive a place in the home of God. We are assured that we will live eternally with God in Heaven.

These are things everyone who comes to Christ inherits. If we think about it, they are more than inheritance enough. But there is more.

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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