Thoughts for another day

March 19, 2010

Today's verse: Eph. 1:18. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, (NIV – copyright acknowledged)
(Pls. read the above before you read further. Thanks)

Most people, often after they’ve arrived into God’s domain, discover that things are different here. They know it has to be for God thinks not the way man does. In fact the very coming into God’s domain requires us to do nothing except harbor faith in Him. To arrive in a man’s domain, one may have to pay a lot of money or part with riches etc. God wants nothing of that from us; only unstinted devotion to Him and when He finds it, He arrives to us rather than we going to Him.

Today’s scripture needs this background to understand what’s meant by riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints. We need eyes of faith to see the things of God which are far more precious and eternal. Even His Word is eternal but not heaven and earth! When the eyes of faith are open, we see the splendor of Him who traverses the entire universe and whose eyes are fixed upon the citizens of the earth who’re waiting upon Him. He is quick to answer and is not slow as we understand it but quick with the knowledge of what is good and what is not, although even the bad may seem good to us.

The riches of God are the portals of heaven and the splendor that’s for every citizen of heaven which can’t be described for no human word can even touch the fringes of God’s glory that’s the hallmark of heaven. Having understood the riches of the heavenly kingdom which are ours by the Lord Jesus Christ, are we to think that God will keep away any of earth’s riches from us? My friend God owns the earth and no matter what, He can give us the treasures of the earth in a twinkling, provided we believe Him for it. All we need are the eyes of our hearts opened or in other words awareness of the immensity of our Lord Jesus. In this state, nothing is impossible to us and riches and honor and other things that the world craves for are but a part of the package that Heaven provides, but in no way do they excite or titillate us the way they do the world.