True inheritance
True Inheritance Devotional
40th week: True Inheritance! You can be blessed, but still not be in Your inheritance!
“And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.” Genesis 32:28 (KJV)
Jacob is so much like us – the people of God. His life is such a profound picture of our own lives. And there is such a big difference between Jacob while he was called: ‘Jacob’, and Jacob after he was called: ‘Israel’.
As ‘Jacob’, he was living as a mere man, in the flesh, in his normal, earthly intellect, abilities and schemes. He was cheating from time to time, when it was good for him; he was working hard to provide for his family; he had his up and down moments, his salary was changed 10 times. Doesn’t this seem like a normal, human life here on the Earth? Sometimes we win, sometimes we lose. We work hard, we try our best, we do all we can.
Yes, we are believers in God at the same time. Jacob was too. He was even blessed with sheep and herds of other cattle. Yet, he was not living in his inheritance! The Lord had more for him. Not only more in quantity, but more in essence, more in reality, more in the area of His eternal purpose.
Then the moment came, when Jacob had to face his weaknesses in a fighting match with the Lord, he had to repent of all his flesh attitudes and actions, he had to seek the Lord’s real blessing (not the one he obtained through cheating and human schemes – he was not satisfied with this one and that’s why he wouldn’t let the angel go until he received God’s blessing), and then only he was changed (transformed) into ‘Israel’ – a prince with God.
Everything changed after that! He came back into the land of God’s promise (his true inheritance), he had favor with his brother and everybody else, he became richer and richer in the Lord’s blessings, and he became the father of a whole nation which had eternal destiny in God.
Let’s not focus on being mere men, let’s not work for the flesh and through the flesh, let’s not use worldly methods and let’s not seek the world’s blessing – it is not our inheritance. Let’s seek the Lord for His real riches – His true inheritance for our lives!
TRUE INHERITANCE
Nikola Dimitrov
Pastor, Bible Teacher, Preacher, Translator, Publisher and Author
“Life in Glory – Bourgas” Church
Bourgas city, Bulgaria, Europe
