When my son was about nine or ten years old, he explained to me that he planned to be a millionaire when he grew up.
"How are you going to get your hands on that kind of money?" I asked him.
"Oh, I'm going to inherit it."
Truly he has the wrong father!
Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily lives that we forget that this existence is not all we have to look forward to - and thank God it isn't! Most of us have not inherited a large some of money (and if we did, would it really make that big a difference in our fulfillment?) and life is not easy.
It can more often than not, feel like a trial.
Reading 1 Peter this morning,
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed."Peter 1:37 (NIV)
Do the trials feel real? Does the testing of your faith feel very real?
If the trials and testing are real, then so is that inheritance that is waiting for us.
This world is not our home.
"All I know is I'm not home yet
This is not where I belong
Take this world and give me Jesus
This is not where I belong" -"Where I Belong" by Building 429
