His Inheritance...

It is an impossible task to even imagine what God’s life must be like. But every once in a while scripture gives us the open door to try. In His desire for relationship with us He reveals some of His world so we can walk with Him.
“They are your people still, your inheritance whom you powerfully and sovereignly rescued.” ~Deut. 9:29
This verse gives us an interesting glance at God’s future hopes. Look at the word ‘inheritance’. Moses stated this to God in a prayer and called us, the people of earth, God’s inheritance. When you think of it, God made all and owns all, so what could be left for Him to inherit? Only us. The idea of God inheriting man was clearer in the culture of bible days. In the centuries that followed Christ’s life, if a slave wanted to be free he had the right to work hard and save up money to buy his freedom. When he had enough money he would go to the temple with his slave owner and pay the owner in the presence of the priest. The owner would then sign over the slave to God, making the slave property of God and God only from then on. This was called ‘sacral manumission’. The slave was then free to live his life as he believed God would want. In this way the understanding of man being God’s inheritance was reinforced daily. We need to embrace this understanding again in our day. Something wonderful happens to the person who becomes God’s inheritance! They become treasured and valued and cared for. We are HIS INHERITANCE! ~Verlon