The Christian’s Joyous Privileges

And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ… – Romans 8:17

Time would fail me, if I were to attempt to read the long roll of the Christian’s joyous privileges. I am God’s child: if so, He will clothe me; my shoes shall be iron and brass; He will array me with the robe of my Saviour’s righteousness, for He has said, “Bring forth the best robe and put it on him,” and He has also said that He will put a crown of pure gold upon my head and inasmuch as I am a king’s son, I shall have a royal crown. Am I His child? Then He will feed me; my bread shall be given me, and my water shall be sure; He that feeds the ravens will never let His children starve. If the good Husbandman feeds the barn-door fowl, and the sheep and the bullocks, certainly His children shall not starve. Does my Father deck the lily, and shall I go naked? Does He feed the fowls of the heaven that sow not, neither do they reap, and shall I feel necessity? God forbid! My Father knoweth what things I have need of before I ask Him, and He will give me all I want. If I be His child, then I have a portion in His heart here, and I shall have a portion in His house above. for “if children then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ,” “If we suffer with Him, we shall be also glorified together.” And oh! brethren, what a prospect this opens up! The fact of our being heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, proves that all things are ours-the gift of God, the purchase of a Saviour’s blood. Are there crowns? They are mine if I be an heir. Are there thrones? Are there dominions? Are there harps, palm branches, white robes? Are there glories that eye hath not seen? and is there music that ear hath not heard? All these are mine, if I be a child of God. “And it doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.” Talk of princes, and kings, and potentates- their inheritance is but a pitiful foot of land, across which the bird’s wing can soon direct its flight; but the broad acres of the Christian cannot be measured by eternity. He is rich, without a limit to his wealth. he is blessed, without a boundary to his bliss. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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