I want my inheritance

Okay, I feel like I can’t sleep until I write this.

 

I spent much of last semester groveling in my own depravity. I thought “totally depraved. I suck.” The cry of my heart was, “less of ME, more of YOU,” which turned into “NONE of ME, ALL of YOU.” Now, this is not a bad prayer. It is good to want God to completely consume you, “until you and I are one” and all of that.  I feel like I took it to an unhealthy extreme, and I know that I am not the only one who has done this. 

 

As I was groveling in my own unworthiness, begging God to strip everything away, he said,

“Hey, Anna. I like you.  I like your personality. I like you alot.“

 

I know that we are fallen, that we do not deserve the right to ask God for anything. We are fallen, and we deserve to be forever separated from the Holiest of Holies. This is true. Mankind is depraved.  But, people, the night is gone, and the day has come.  I think to much emphasis is put on the depraved man, and not enough on the redeemed one.

 

This redemption is not just for our entrance into heaven when we die. This redemption is an invitation to bring the kingdom to this earth. This redemption brings the kingdom inside of us. Through Christ, we have this amazing inheritance that the Father lavishly pours out to us. We go from slavery to royalty. Unworthiness to holiness. Separation to everlasting union.

 

 It is a dangerous thing to not know what you are.

I honestly think the
enemy wants to keep people in this ‘totally depraved’ mindset, because
he’s terrified at what would happen if we got a glimpse of who we are
meant to be.

 

God is not looking at us and constantly being reminded
about how dark, disgusting and unworthy we are. When He looks at us,
He sees Christ. His eyes are blinded by love for his creation. When Jesus said, “anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works, because I am going to be with the Father,  “ He means it. Everything that Jesus did on this earth is an example of the things that we can do, through Him. Walking on water, healing the sick, casting out demons, raising the dead, these are just some of the things that are within our grasp. 

 

 

So what’s holding us back?

 

 Let’s be the generation that knows who we are, because we see ourselves through our creator’s eye. 
Let’s be the generation that boldly takes ahold of our inheritance.
Let’s be the generation that ushers in true kingdom to all the earth.

 

1 Peter 2: 9But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.