The Inheritance

 "But God, He has made me a Father to Pharaoh, and Lord of all his house, and ruler over this land". Genesis 45:8.

Have you noticed how the powers that be are always in a rush, and are expecting us to rush along with them?

There's this agenda, and then there's this - oh, and this... so many things to be done! (Isaiah 57:21, Proverbs 4:16-18).

And then, there's the Patriarch (child) of the Lord, blessed by God with dreams of how the very sun and moon bow down before Him (Genesis 37:9), and, in actuality, adorn the radiance of this eternally beloved company (Revelation 12:1).

Notice the principal difference.

One company spend all their days rushing around seeking to own what's not theirs, and the other simply rest in the promises of the One who is above all, that these things are theirs - they have been given such wealth, and much more, by their Father's eternal good pleasure.

Egypt survived a time of great trouble purely because God bestowed favour upon His beloved amongst them - they all richly benefitted from this, but things are somewhat different now. Now "Egypt's" schemes are akin to those of a ruler who 'forgot Joseph' - and that means very turbulent times are evidenced.

When the church becomes irrelevant to those who think they know better, or when religious authorities seek to divert from God's eternal riches towards 'social imperatives' that must , apparently, occupy great swathes of our time, then you can be certain that days of plague and trouble will remain.

This war is in full swing, but God's ways will win out, even when those who love Him are 'troubled' by those who beat and seek to enslave them into all manner of tyranny.

There's a wonderful opening quote (placed in the character of Ian Fleming) at the beginning of the recent film, Operation Mincemeat.

Fleming states:

"In any story, if it's a good story, there is that which is seen, and that which is hidden. This is especially true in stories of war. There is the war we all see - a contest of bombs, and bullets, of courage, sacrifice and force. But alongside this war, there is another conflict that is being waged. A battleground amidst shades of grey, where the participants are strange. They are seldom what they seem, and fiction and reality blur. This war is a wilderness of mirrors in which the truth is protected by a bodyguard of false trails. This is the real war".

History reveals to us just how palpably true that is.

The Cross is our victory because it is the threshold to a stripping of every principality and power that seeks to elevate itself above the most high. As the veil was rent and heaven and earth shook, sun, moon and stars forever returned back to the children God had bestowed them to as an everlasting inheritance, and because of the blood which was shed on that day, nothing can ever sever us from the love that deems such things to be.

The future is set, and a redeemed creation is the frontispiece of that majesty!

Sola Deo Gloria!