We Are Heirs and not Servants: We need to grow up to enjoy the benefits

There is no doubt that there are treasures laid up for the believer; both here on earth and in heaven. The bible says that He has freely given us all things so we obviously have a problem with accessing the things that are ours because we are certainly not like people who have been given all things. Please note that I am not by any means suggesting that the believer's life will then be without challenges, the thing is the word of God testifies that we shall overcome them. Unfortunately, we are running into great difficulties accessing these things that have been freely given to us in its fullness because we are using the methods of the world. Of course they appear to be faster and more result oriented but are they? Also they take one further and further away of God and the results they give are not long lasting for the believer.

1 Corinthians 2: 12 "And we have received God’s Spirit (not the world’s spirit), so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us."

Romans 8: 32 "Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?"

Obviously wealth given by God varies from one man to the other depending on your purpose here on earth and so the preparation for handling wealth also differs from one man to the other depending on what He has given you. So you don't decide what you would like to have because someone else has it and the information concerning that which is your portion is discerned by your spirit from the Spirit of God who knows everything that is on the mind of God. Since these things are spiritually discerned, the carnal mind will have a problem tapping into these God given benefits. I now understand why some people are easily inclined toward using the method of the world but you who are spiritual must learn to reach deep into your spirit and connect with the Spirit of God because the methods of the world cannot give us the fullness of the God result. Spiritual things are just that and cannot be obtained using worldly method so that we are cutting ourselves short when we make that our way of obtaining wealth.

1 Corinthians 2: 14 "But people who aren’t spiritual can’t receive these truths from God’s Spirit. It all sounds foolish to them and they can’t understand it, for only those who are spiritual can understand what the Spirit means."

No wonder a number of believers are struggling today. Yet instead of getting spiritual we are learning more and more the methods of the world so that we are becoming more carnal which makes it even more difficult to hear God; and we suffer from such great insecurities that we think we are "cool" by being carnal. On those rare occasions when we feel a little bad because of the worldly things we do, we find nice "spiritual sounding words" to describe them so that our consciences can be assuaged and we still keep our spiritual look. I think the unbeliever who calls evil what it is would probably be doing himself more good because he at least admits to himself that he is doing something wrong but he does not see another way of getting round it and it produces seemingly fast results. The believer however covers up his own sin, not by the blood of Jesus, but by using several different words to describe the same evil.

Galatians 4: 1 "Think of it this way. If a father dies and leaves an inheritance for his young children, those children are not much better off than slaves until they grow up, even though they actually own everything their father had."

So becoming spiritual is actually for our benefit. Now I remember how I used to be amazed at how believers were the real wealthy men in the past years but not so today. These big time business men used to hear God talk to them giving them business ideas and counsel as to when to make their move and so on. It is sad that all that has changed particularly in the environment where I live. No wonder we are struggling today. We are too far from the things which belong to us; for they are spiritual while we are yet carnal and until we get spiritual and are able to discern spiritual information, we would only be getting the portion of servants instead of heirs. I think we need to take growing up to maturity in Christ more seriously. It is costing us too much to remain babes because we are only getting the portion of servants a instead of heirs.