Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Made Us Meet

Colossians 1:12 KJV
Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light:

We have much to thank the Father for when we realize that we are meet (qualified and fit) to be partakers of the heavenly inheritance only because the Father has made us meet. We did not deserve it. We could have done nothing to earn it. It is a gift, bequeathed upon us completely at the will of the Father.

Albert Barnes' Notes says that in making us meet God has given us, "... a state of feeling that is adapted to that. There is a congruity between his feelings and heaven - a state of mind that can be satisfied with nothing but heaven. He has in his heart substantially the same principles which reign in heaven; and he is suited to find happiness only in the same objects in which the inhabitants of heaven do, He loves the same God and Saviour; has pleasure in the same truths; prefers, as they do, holiness to sin; and, like the inhabitants of heaven, he would choose to seek his pleasure in holy living, rather than in the ways of vanity. His preferences are all on the side of holiness and virtue; and, with such preferences, he is fitted for the enjoyments of heaven."

May God grant us that we can be satisfied with nothing but heaven.
That heaven is the only thing that is able to satisfy us and we will not be satisfied until we are there and
That we can be satisfied with heaven even when we have nothing else in this world.

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