Receive

Imagine that tomorrow the family lawyer rings you up and says a relative has died in England and has no close relatives. We tracked you down and you’re the closest survivor and will inherit her wealth. With your mind racing, you enquire “How much?” 10 million dollars is the reply. Now that is an inheritance! But when you inherit the money, did you work for it or receive it?  You received; you don’t deserve you didn’t work, you just received and was very thankful. We are co-heirs with Jesus which means we get to share in His inheritance. In the world, people try to get things.  To get a blessing, get ahead, get a wife and get a child, but it is really an unbiblical way of thinking about life.  Every good thing comes down from heaven as a gift. That’s Christian thinking. We’re not trying to get things from God; we are learning how to receive things from God.   Everything we receive from God we receive as a gift. Father wants to give you an inheritance.  He gave you the gift of salvation and you received it.  Success is the Christian life is about who can receive the most from God.   The more you can receive of God’s grace and gifts the better you live as a Christian. The moment you stopped receiving from God today, was the moment you decided you didn’t need grace; didn’t need Gods power or His help to stay walking in love. Those that do exploits for God are those who keep receiving from God all the time.

Friend, we will always be receivers, so that way He gets all the credit. All we can do is become better at receiving grace.  That’s the difference between a believer and a more mature believer; they have learned to be better receivers of grace.