“… and with Him is abundant redemption.”
Not just redemption – though that would be more than I deserve, but abundant redemption. This redemption is so abundant that it delivers us, and then adds to deliverance an unimaginable inheritance. Lord, I’m so glad that you did not just save me and then leave me to myself, but that you saved me and granted to me a rich inheritance in Christ. Lord please help me to recognize and appreciate those parts of my inheritance that have been given to me now; forgiveness, freedom from sin, power from your Spirit, gifts to serve and glorify your grace, love and fellowship with the saints, promises that ensure that all things will work together for my good, inexpressible joy even in the midst of trials and sorrows, and so much more.
Lord, please help me also to continually have a longing, an aching in my heart, for those parts of my inheritance that are yet to come. Such future treasures that I can’t even imagine them; an undiminished, uncorrupted, and fully enjoyable delight in the presence of Christ and eternal fellowship with you such that will fully satisfy my soul. Lord please rain on me moments of this fellowship, times of such communion (albeit limited because of my current limited capacity to receive and experience such intensity). But as I wait on you, allow me to delight myself in you and feel your presence. I need you and am desperate for you. I wait for you more than the watchman wait for the morning – my soul waits. Come quickly Lord. Revive my heart with joy and power from your Spirit; that you will dwell in my heart by faith and I might be filled to all the measure of the fullness of God. Amen.
“For this reason I endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory.” 2 Timothy 2:10
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