How do you receive an inheritance?

[Beaver]

Before I was married, I had been taught if you wanted something and you earned it yourself, you would respect it more. If it was just given to you freely at your desire, you could never appreciate it the same. So as I desired different things in life, I set out to achieve them on my own. I had life figured out, or so I thought. I married one year after the purchase of my first home. It was my wife’s dad that had passed away and she had inherited, a portion of money that I had not earned or did anything to deserve. We being in full agreement when we were joined that we would become one. What was mine became hers and what was hers became mine, our bank accounts, checking and savings became one account. Now I had a delima, an inheritance. I had become part of something that was free and I had done nothing to deserve. How would I respect that? How was I to handle such a gift? I had met her aunts and uncles and cousins. They had all became partakers of the same inheritance, some received more, some less, but all received according to the will of their dad, and their granddad. The family had a 16 acre farm. All the children had established their own life and homes and when the farm became there inheritance it was quickly sold and divided. It was sold at a fraction of its value, in the haste to put the past behind them, or to try to escape the truth that came with it. Hind sight is 20/20. But the denial of the hindsight will never change the Truth. This was such a question 25 years ago, and the answer seems so clear to me today.

How to receive an inheritance? In order to receive an inheritance and handle it in God’s will, you must first come to the realization as to where it comes from. Who’s will has put it into place. What did it take to acquire what you are receiving? And if you receive it, can that person’s will live on in you as they would want. You have been left something that is the will of another, and order for you to allow that person live on, you must handle it with the same care that it took to gain it. To whom much is given much is required. When you come to the understanding of what it took for you to receive the inheritance, it is then and only then you can treat it with respect. It is then that the will of the person that left you an inheritance will live on. You could treat it as riches, or squander it and disprespect it. It can be the biggest blessing in your life, or you can think only of yourself when receiving it, and their will, the one you inherited from, will come to an end.

The Bible has allowed me to see, I have become a partaker of Christ inheritance through Him, as I accept Him. My believing in this, and receiving it by faith makes it so. With this inheritance, I had to come to the realization of what it took for it to be left for me. I had to know the will of the one that left it, and for their will to live on I must handle it as their will would have me. Then and only then could I give it the respect that it deserved.

The way I was raised, that if I did not earn it myself, I would never respect it, had come to an end, and I now realize that if you receive the inheritance with God’s will directing you, it can be the blessing it is meant to be.

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