The Daily Word

Have you ever benefitted from someone else’s Will? I must be very friendless because I can say I have never been a beneficiary from a Will! My Mum’s house passed down to me when she died but that was because I was her nearest living relative and it had to go through probate to secure possession. But that is the only time I have benefitted financially from someone’s death and to be honest, I would rather have had my mother alive than receive the house. In all respects it is essential that each of us makes a Will, otherwise the legal complications that can arise make life difficult for those who are left.

If we were left something, we would probably wish to express thanks to anyone who was involved, obviously not the deceased person, but any relative that was involved because we have obtained benefit from a person’s death.

In Colossians 1 12 we have exactly the situation that I have described above, but in totally spiritual terms, “Giving thanks unto the Father, who has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance”. Here is exactly what our spiritual benefit is, we have received the inheritance of eternal life through the death of Jesus, God’s Son. Had He not died, there would have been no inheritance for us to benefit. But it is a unique situation because the benefactor is now alive and yet still has left an inheritance for anyone to claim by faith in Him. If we realise the value of our inheritance then we ought to constantly thank the One who drew up the Will as it were, the Father who planned the salvation from sin. Not only should we thank Him for the position we are now in but also for the One who made it possible by dying on the cross. Once again we can say, “Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift!”

Article written by Brian Preston, Elder @SFGH Church