WHERE ON EARTH IS YOUR MIND?

The New Testament was originally written in Greek. The Greek word sunkleronomos (soong-klay-ron-om-oss) means “co-heir”, or “with a lot to possess”.  In plain words, it means a joint participant and one who receives much with another. The words heir or co-heir is used several times in the New Testament.

When you were born, you did not choose who your biological mother and father would be.  Perhaps some of you were adopted; you did not choose your adoptive parents.  However, we do have a choice of becoming God’s children.  We can decide if we want him to be our Father and for Jesus to become our brother.

Eph. 1:3-5 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.”

If our earthly father was the President of the United States, or even the King of England, we would want everyone to know about it.  Along with that honor would comes quite a few “perks”.  Being the child of someone that important would allow us freedom like we wouldn’t believe.  We would have power and prestige; everything we needed would be given to us.  We would know that someday all the things that belonged to our Dad, would become ours, jointly, with our brothers and sisters.

As Christians, that is our true position in life right now, and some of us try to keep it a secret.  Many believers are living like paupers and slaves to this world, when they could be living like kings.  All we need to do is call our “Daddy” and he will take care of us.  Ro. 8:15 “For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, "Abba, (Daddy) Father.  Not only are we able now to live in victory, but this inheritance will allow us to live in victory forever.

Thank God for his wonderful grace and everlasting mercy.  Thank him for not only giving you life as an infant coming into this world, but for giving us another chance that we could be born again and have a new life that continues as we leave this world.  There are unimaginable wonders that await the “born again” believer in an eternal life in heaven.  I Pet. 1:3-4 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade--kept in heaven for you...”

Perhaps you have never experienced the love of a father on this earth; the kind of love that makes Dad the “hero” of our life.  This kind of love gives our child within, a desire to become just like him.  It is time to let the past go; the hurt, resentment and bitterness.  You have a Father that loves you with an unending love.  He’s an eternal hero for all times and if we stick with him and try to know him better, someday, we’ll be like him.  Reach out and receive the love he is offering you today!

John 3:1-2 “How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.  Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”

Do you have low self-esteem; the kind that lets you believe you are worthless and good for nothing?  Do you think that you have nothing to offer, even as a believer?  You are wrong!  You are more valuable to your heavenly Father than all the riches of the world.  As God’s dear children, just as with a king’s child, he has given you power and authority; power to come against the enemy and authority to overcome him.  He has given you power to be a great witness for him.  You have been equipped to carry out “the great commission”. (Mark 16:15)

As Christians, we need to be decisive. You already have the ability to make decisions.  When you asked Jesus into your heart, you made a positive decision.  When you open your Bible to read the Word, you have made a decision.  When you go to God in prayer, you are decisive.  It isn’t only in spiritual matters - we make daily decisions, it is part our everyday lives.  It may be a decision about where you live, how you live and what you need to maintain your life. It is time Christians stand up and make decisions about living holy, Godly lives; taking a stand for a moral lifestyle.  After all, one day you will even judge the angels.  If you can’t make a decision now - how will you make heavenly decisions and judgments in life to come?  Read I Corinthians 6:2-3“Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?  Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life!”

You are the “ELECT” of God, your Father.  He chose you from the beginning, to belong to him.  God didn’t choose wimps to be his children.  Now is the time to take your rightful place in his kingdom.  You are his ambassadors to the world.  Ambassadors are not sent forth dressed in rags and bowed low with the cares of the world.  They go forth in the power and authority of the One who sent them; heads held high and without fear.  Who are you? You are a child of Almighty God; his elect - ACT LIKE IT!