In Christ Jesus, the believer shares with Christ all His possessions. Every spiritual blessing is ours in Christ. Dare we believe it? All things are ours in Christ. Dare we act as though we believe it?

Ephesians 1:3

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.”

Romans 8:32

He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”

1 Corinthians 3:21

“Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours.”

God says in these and many other passages that the possessions of the exalted Christ are the possessions of the one united to Him by faith. Identification with Him in His death, burial, resurrection, and ascension includes identification with Him in all the gain and the glory, all the privileges and possessions gained by Him through His passion. Christ’s victory over Satan and all the forces of evil is ours, and His present life of rest, peace, and joy is ours.

What, then, should be the Christian’s chief business in life? To possess his possessions in Christ Jesus that he may realize and utilize to the full his spiritual inheritance in daily life and service. How may this be done?

1. Through spiritual apprehension of our riches in Christ. 

1 Corinthians 2:12

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.”

We could never know ourselves, but the Spirit knows and indwells us so that He may illuminate us regarding our riches in Christ.

2. Through spiritual aspiration for our riches in Christ.

Colossians 3:1-2

“Seek those things which are above . . . . Set your affection on things above.”

We shall possess our riches in Christ through the Holy Spirit’s illumination and impelling. The indwelling Spirit creates within us the desire for all our spiritual inheritance.

3. Through spiritual appropriation of our riches in Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:18

“But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.”

Faith lays hold on our inheritance in Christ and appropriates that which God has so prodigally provided. The Holy Spirit energizes us to take these things by faith. 

Source: “Life on the Highest Plane” by Ruth Paxson

Dear Lord, we must admit that we fall short of possessing our spiritual inheritance day by day. We need our eyes opened to see the incredible gift You have given us through the Holy Spirit, who makes all things of Christ our reality.