1189. In Whom We Are Made an Inheritance–The Father's Chief Delight
In Whom We Are Made an Inheritance–The Father's Chief Delight
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus onto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them" (Eph_2:10).
Many of us are fathers. What is our greatest joy? There are two great calls for our affection. There are the things which are the results of our fingers, of our hands, or even of our heads. Then there are the things of our very being, the fruit of our body–our sons.
In which do we delight the more? In things or in sons? Certainly the things of our fingers give us pleasure. We are glad to show our friends the works of our hands–our homes and its furnishings; our garden, our farm, our cattle, our auto. We are glad to show our friends the work of our brain, our convictions on great and important issues, the books we may have written, the conceptions we may have sent forth. But none of these hold a place beside our children.
Consider then what is the chief delight of God. He has created the sun, the moon and the stars; He made the world and all the things that are therein.
God might delight in the planets, the work of His fingers; but God could never fellowship with them.
The automobile may be our delight, and please us as swiftly and majestically it sweeps us along the way, but the automobile can never satisfy our looking for companionship.
Suns may glorify God, and please Him in many ways; but suns can never "be with Him, where He is."
It overwhelms us with gratitude and with eager anticipation when we consider that sons are His inheritance, chosen above all else, even above angels. We will be with Him and He with us for evermore.
In these things He takes delight. He has spread His world athwart the heavens, where they are seen of all eyes. They all show forth His glory, they magnify the greatness of His might. Yet the chief delight of God is neither in the sun, nor the moon, nor in the stars. He delights in sons.
Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR