July 20 Morning Devotional | Guarantee of Our Inheritance | Morning and Evening by Charles Spurgeon

Morning, July 20 | “The guarantee of our inheritance.” —Ephesians 1:14 (ESV)

This Morning's Scripture Reading: Ephesians 1:9-14 (ESV)

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.

Devotional Video Transcript:

Oh, what enlightenment, what joys, what consolation, what delight of heart is experienced by that man who has learned to feed on Jesus, and on Jesus alone! Yet the realization which we have of Christ’s preciousness is, in this life, imperfect at the best. As an old writer says, “’Tis but a taste!”

We have tasted “that the Lord is gracious,” (Psalm 34:8) but we do not yet know how good and gracious he is, although what we know of his sweetness makes us long for more. We have enjoyed the first fruits of the Spirit, and they have set us hungering and thirsting for the fulness of the heavenly vintage. We groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption. Here we are like Israel in the wilderness, who had but one cluster from Eshcol, there we shall be in the vineyard. Here we see the manna falling small, like coriander seed, but there shall we eat the bread of heaven and the old corn of the kingdom. We are but beginners now in spiritual education; for although we have learned the first letters of the alphabet, we cannot read words yet, much less can we put sentences together.

But as one says, “He that has been in heaven but five minutes, knows more than the general assembly of divines on earth.” We have many ungratified desires at present, but soon every wish shall be satisfied; and all our powers shall find the sweetest employment in that eternal world of joy.

O Christian, anticipate heaven for a few years. Within a very little time, you shall be rid of all your trials and your troubles. Your eyes now suffused with tears shall weep no longer. You shall gaze in ineffable rapture upon the splendor of him who sits upon the throne. Nay, more, upon his throne, you shall sit. The triumph of his glory shall be shared by you; his crown, his joy, his paradise, these shall be yours, and you shall be co-heir with him who is the heir of all things.

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