Heritage

 

Heritage is something that intrigues us all, we all like to know our history when it come to our ancestry. The “Black lives Matters” movement that is now in full swing has piqued the interest of many. Samuel L Jackson has now travelled down a road seeking out his origin; Gabon in West Africa and this documentary can be viewed on many platforms. I am told that I come from the lineage of a Prime Minister, on my mother’s side. My grandfather’s father’s bother was supposedly Louis Botha, South Africa’s first Prime Minister. The truth be told, there is something that the flesh loves about the boast of a legacy. My step brother Mike, traced his linage back to William Wallace of Scotland, better known to most as Brave Heart, in fact, he even framed a placard that paints his wall. But all of this heritage ride on the wave of death, all of those individuals are now dead. Seventy years or there a bouts and then the end for all. What a dismal hope when viewed laterally against eternity, the part we do not see, and yet somehow we all know exists, time without end and all that entails, our eternal futures.

 

Our souls will live on beyond the end of days, whether we embrace a blissful existence or cursed torment, all depends on our spiritual heritage. This now become a fundamental truth that we daren’t miss. God sent his only begotten Son the Lord Jesus Christ to defeat the curse of sin, and the way in which he achieved that was to live a life of sinless perfection and then pay the price for the sins of many, by being sentenced to death by crucifixion as if he had sinned. It was his sacrifice that opened a way for sinners, you and me, to re-establish the connection Adam had with God in the beginning. This amazing attrition of love from Jesus Christ, the One who laid his life down for his enemies. He was buried and on the third day, God raised him from the dead, and there are many eye witnesses to verify this truth. Those who saw him alive and well after being buried in a tomb. Then the time came for his ascension and he ascended back into heaven and is now seated at the right hand of his Father, where he arbitrates for all those who rely on Him, every born again believer. Kapow! Now that’s the heritage that excites me and my boast is most certainly in HIM…

 

Our bodies will all face death, but He has conquered death, He rose again! Our initial heritage, we all children of the devil because of our own sin, but HE has conquered sin! All those who rely on the finished work of the cross, will receive glorified bodies, just like His, a body that will take us into eternity and beyond. But for those who reject and turn their noses up to our blessed Redeemers accomplishment they will face the Lake of fire and torment will be their lot into endless hopelessness…

 

For all the fence sitters, and those who still breathe the oxygen God has afforded them to sustain their mortal bodies, there is great news, pay very careful attention! “For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”” (Roman 10:13) – But call you must, your future depends upon it. As for me and my household we will serve the Lord...

 

Signing out

 

Tyrone