THURSDAY

Colossians 1:12-14

• Because we are children of God, what has God done for us?

In 2012, a group of children were playing in the snow when they came across something morose. In the southeast corner of Wyoming, Evanston was a small mining town with pretty underwhelming headlines. But on the last day of the year, December 31, a group of sledding kids found Timothy Gray’s body under an overpass, frozen. Gray was a homeless man, 60 years old, and a total “nobody” by society’s standards.

But as police investigated his death, which they determined to be of natural causes, a peculiar fact came to light that shocked the community: Timothy Gray was an heir to a 19-million dollar fortune. Unbeknownst to the town, Gray’s great-grandfather was an affluent copper miner. The family had been searching for Timothy for years.

The money was Timothy’s. A bursting inheritance left unclaimed that would have completely changed the course of his life. And yet, he died not knowing his fortune.

You, too, have an inheritance that is yours to claim. Colossians says that God has “qualified” us to “share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light.” That means that you and I are heirs to a fortune of God’s blessing—not because we’ve earned it, but because we’ve been qualified by God.