The Excellency of Jacob

Everyone loves an inheritance. For the most part, an inheritance is a blessing, a reward, that you neither worked for nor deserved. It is given for the mere pleasure of the giver. The testator leaves inheritances as he sees fit. 

          "I bequeath the upper 40 acres to my beloved son, John. May the ground return 30, 60 and 100 fold.  And I leave the ¼ acre black swamp to my money grubbing cousin Henrich. May he swim there often!"

The Bible says that God has chosen our inheritance. We might be nervous at the reading of the will. Are we the beloved John or the despised Henrich? But our Father in Heaven is gracious beyond compare. He neither treats us as we deserve nor fails to amaze us in His abundant blessings.

Our inheritance is the life among the saints and the saints themselves. You have a new family in Christ. Look around at the Excellency of Jacob. We have inherited fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers, all the children of our God who is in Heaven. Jesus has become our elder brother and in Him, we have become heirs of all things.