The Parable of the Conceptual Inheritor (Continued) You call him to confront him on why he is not appropriating the gift that was given to him and he says It is enough to meditate on the wondrous concept of this. Grace so lofty, grace so complete, grace so overwhelming... and he gets teary eyed as he speaks thus. You retort: But youre not taking advantage of the very thing you are so captured with the thought of. Well, replies the son, My father is a great philanthropist, and I could never be like that. Yes you could, and this is exactly what your father had in mind, you reply. He expected this gift to change your life, even ordered you to live differently. Draw on the resources he has given you. Now then, stop being your old self and start doing the business you have received from your father in the power of his resources. For all your encouragement, this lofty person seems so caught up in theoretical meditations of the fact he has received and accepted such wealth, that he seems somehow to miss what it was given for. After a year, an unexpected letter is received from the father which says: If you are having a problem with a particular son who has a proclivity to get caught up in the form of things here is my instruction. If he receives my great inheritance in vain, if he continues to fall from the grace I have made available to him by not actualizing it---but only basking in the thought of it while remaining in his own resources and way of life -- then take away his inheritance. Give it to someone whom it will really transform, who will use it to do what I want done, who will truly be my son. 2 Peter 1:2-12 Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord, as His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. For if these things are ours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom or our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. For this reason I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things, though you know and are established in the present truth. Hebrews 6:12 (NIV) imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. Acts 20:32,35 (NIV) Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified...In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak...
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 19:29:55 +0000
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