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The Better Inheritance, June 30
An inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not
away, reserved in heaven for you.
1 Peter 1:4
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Our petitions to God should not proceed from hearts that are filled with
selfish aspirations. God exhorts us to choose those gifts that will redound
to His glory. He would have us choose the heavenly instead of the earthly.
He throws open before us the possibilities and advantages of a heavenly
commerce. He gives encouragement to our loftiest aims, security to our
choicest treasure. When the worldly possession is swept away, the believer
will rejoice in his heavenly treasure, the riches that cannot be lost in any
earthly disaster
How sad it is that men turn from the immortal inheritance, and live
for the gratification of pride, for selfishness and display, and through
submission to the rule of Satan, lose the blessing which they might have
both in this life and in the life to come. They might enter into the palaces
of heaven, and associate on terms of freedom and equality with Christ and
heavenly angels, and with the princes of God, and yet, incredible as it may
seem, they turn from heavenly attractions....
Satan is contending for the souls of men.... He would not have them
catch a glimpse of the future honor, the eternal glories, laid up for those
who shall be inhabitants of heaven, or have a taste of the experience that
gives a foretaste of the happiness of heaven....
Those who accept Christ as their Saviour have the promise of the life
that now is, and that which is to come.... The lowliest disciple of Christ
may become an inhabitant of heaven, an heir of God to an inheritance
incorruptible, that fadeth not away. O that every one might make choice of
the heavenly gift, become an heir of God to that inheritance whose title is
secure from any destroyer, world without end! O, choose not the world
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