Years ago I Yolie & I drew up a "Last Will and Testament". It needs to be updated since our son is now an adult, but it was pretty simple. If I die first, Yolie gets everything and then when she dies, John-Mark gets the whole enchilada. It also was written in the reverse. If we both died at the same time, our son inherited all we have.

The thing about a will it that is only goes into effect after the "will-maker" takes their last earth-breath. One has to die to bring the will "to life" for all those who are listed as heirs.

We separate the Bible into two sections. One is called the Old Testament and the other is called the New Testament. Actually, it is a seamless text, God's Word recorded through human history revealing His nature, His purpose and His will to all humanity. In 2 Corinthians 1:20, St. Paul states that ALL the promises of God, His revealed will, are "Yes!" in Jesus Christ. The full Will of God is found in Jesus.

To bring to "life" all the promises made in the "Will of God", Jesus had to taste death for the whole human race. He had to bear in His own human body on the cross the full weight of the sin of all people, for all time. He experience the complete and just wrath of God against sin seeing it as only God can and experiencing it's utter desolation as only God could...in His real, physical body...with His real human emotions...with His real human mind. He had to die for us so that the Will of God would go into effect for everyone who would simply believe Him, receive Him and follow Him.

When I die, my will will go into effect, but my family cannot expect anything else from me. My physical being will have ceased to effectively function in any way as far as the day-to-day world is concerned. I'll be dead. No one will be able to count on me again. My effectiveness as far as anyone here on earth is concerned will have come to an end. 

Not so with Jesus...I know that MY redeemer lives! The One who died for me conquered death and was raised from the dead to live forever. He tasted death once and for all...for all.  Death can no longer exert any control over Him. He has vanquished death. He lives eternally now, Jesus Christ, in His Resurrected Body.

He is the ONLY "will-maker" who ever lives to bring to bear all the promises of God's Eternal Will in the lives of those who become heirs of God, joint heirs with Him by grace through faith. Our God is the Living God. We do not serve and follow a mere memory. We serve a Living Savior.

He is in the world today. He lives His very life in you, Christian. It is His will that where you go, His kingdom, His rule authority, truth, blessing and work continue...through you! If you belong to Jesus Christ, eternal live is already at work in you. It is transforming you day by day. From the inside out the Holy Spirit is working to reproduce in you the life, character and nature of Jesus Christ. THAT is your heritage. Having begun a good work in you, He will bring that work to completion.

We live in a world that has become more and more profoundly blind because they have refused to love the truth: they need rescuing and God has already done the rescuing to be received as a gift. It you are not hungry, you will nor seek food. If you are not thirsty, you will not seek water. The world is full of people ripe for deception. They believe they are OK...good people...at least they have people they have graded as worse than they perceive themselves.

They do not really know that God is the living God, active, merciful, forgiving, just and loving. How in the world will they ever come to get a glimpse at the eternal wonder of our God? I'm glad you asked the question. The answer God has for them is meant to be lived out through you. To hear about God's love through you, to see the life of God being lived through you, to be able to examine over time the reality that, "DANG! IT'S TRUE!" and to touch the reality of the Living God in you...that is their hope. God lives through you and He draws them to Himself through you.

They will see that God does love imperfect folk, does forgive to the uttermost and does care intimately and specifically because they will see it in you as you follow Jesus. Jesus is going to live His life in His power in His authenticity and winsomeness THROUGH YOU!!!

There is no part of the Will of God that you are left out of. The One who dies to bring that Will to life, ever lives and He is living in you by the very power that raise Him from the dead. THAT is the ground of our hope. I know that my Redeemer lives and that at the last day he will stand upon the earth and my own eyes shall see Him and I will know Him...He will be no stranger to me!