December 04, 2012
Reading of the Will
In the limousine on the way to the graveside service the
twenty-something granddaughter asked the grieving widow, “When do you read the Will? I’m sure grandpa would have left me
something. I need to know if we read the Will now, or if I need to make
arrangements to come back later.” Even giving a pass for the selfishness of
youth, I’m still left saying, “Really?”
However, after a little more thought I’m wondering if the church is missing out
on a great opportunity. Just as soon as a new believer comes out of the waters
of baptism we should be reading the Will. They need to know that Jesus left
them something, they are included in the inheritance and they are an heir.
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Gail;
-----That is an interesting way to look at what seems to be our death but is actually a beginning. In fact, it is kind of like we get to half-choose our own death, and the Lord gets to choose the other half. Think about it. When the Holy Spirit dwells within us, our spirits are made alive. By our spirit being made alive is the only way His Spirit can have fellowship within us, for light can not fellowship with darkness. This means our spirits leave darkness in the exact same kind of death that they experienced when they were in darkness being dead to God. Only now, our chosen death is to darkness, instead of to God. To choose one is to die to the other. So we chose life and immediately needed that part of our inheritance.
-----If our spirits are made alive in the Lord, then do we really even die? Our bodies will stop functioning at a particular point in time that God knows for each. But even these will be restored to life. And at this “death“, as we might then call it, only life remains, plus some “will be alive again” type ashes. And how’d we get the life? We worked for it? No. We got it by God’s grace, yes. His grace delivers a piece of inheritance to us as we become known by Him, spirit to Spirit. Since we have a piece of that inheritance in the Holy Spirit, some part of the Will must have been or is being read, maybe even since we said, “Yes, Lord.”
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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