Heir to All

July 31

Have you ever allowed a child to sit on your lap and ‘help’ you drive your car? That may not be done much in today’s highly regulated society but my own childhood memories include being on my father’s lap and ‘assisting’ as he drove along one of our country lanes where there was no traffic. I thought it was great!

Children tend to want the vestiges of adulthood long before they’re ready for them. Example: the little one clomping around in Mommy’s high heals or Daddy’s large shoes. As Christians, we also tend to want gifts and responsibilities from the Lord for which we are not prepared.

Our Father God is too wise to allow us to venture into areas of endeavor for which we are not ready, for which we do not have the depth of emotional or spiritual understanding to execute them in a way that advances our own good or the Kingdom’s ends.

As Galatians 4:2 tells us, we are like the child who is heir to all his father possesses, but is yet too immature to attain it. “Instead, he is under guardians and stewards until the time set by his father.” When we are ready for ministry, as the child who is heir to all, we will receive our task and perform our work Christ.