A Guarantee

Your inheritance in Christ is secure.

God guarantees it!

Ephesians 1 is no infomercial

Touting a trinket—

Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

No, the picture Paul paints of you in Christ

Is deep,

Eternally reliable,

Infinitely valuable:

You have been sealed

With the Promised Holy Spirit,

Who is the guarantee of our inheritance

Until we acquire possession of it. (Eph. 1:13,14)

Some say we shouldn’t guarantee

The blessings of salvation—

The inheritance gets dangled like a carrot

Before the believer’s nose.

But God stamps it in His Word

And seals it in the believer’s heart

By the presence of the Spirit.

Guaranteed!

Find fuel for life not through

Fear of lost inheritance

But through

Faith in God’s presence and promises.

The Holy Spirit is God’s earnest money,

A down payment so rich

That you can be sure—

God has too much invested in you to ever

Let you go.