Eternal life. "And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life." - Matthew 19:29 (ESV)
Ah, leaving the inheritance of this world does not mean that we are leaving inheritance altogether, but it could mean that we have found a greater inheritance.
A man says to a person dribbling a basketball, "Excuse me sir, I will pay you one million dollars to wear these shoes for a year and let me take your picture."
The person dribbling the basketball says, "No thanks, NIKE pays me one million dollars every minute."
Saying no to an inheritance that is smaller to put all our eggs in the basket of a larger inheritance is good.
Jim Elliot died at age 28 an did not enjoy an inheritance on this earth or of this earth. He died trying to share Jesus with the people who killed him. Jim Elliot said this,
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."
Eternal life is forever, unlike diamonds anything else this world sells.
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