Who is qualified to live?
This is a profound question. A question that needs to be answered, Biblically.
Col 1:9-18
9 For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17 And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. 18 And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. NKJV
The first thing we need to see for us to understand is the need to be filled with the knowledge of His will, which is the purpose of this post. My prayer for you is that you will be enlightened by the wisdom and understanding found in the will of Christ. If you are a Christian, your desire is to please and walk worthy of the LORD. This is only possible by walking in His power and being strengthened with all His might that works patience and longsuffering with eternal joy by which we give thanks to The Father who qualifies us to partake of eternal LIFE, which is the saint's inheritance. So, this qualification does not come from a quality within ourselves, but from the Father who created us.
How does the Father qualify us? He qualifies us through His Son, who is the exact and express image of God. In Jesus Christ God made the world and all that is in it. In Christ God made everything for Himself; therefore, all things are to be subjected to Him. However, in Christ God subjected Himself to the hostility of men to have pre-eminence among them. Those whom Christ purchased with His blood are qualified to live, not to themselves, but to Him who made them. In Christ we are qualified because Christ was the only one qualified to take upon the sin of the world and qualify the ungodly to LIVE. Those who reject LIFE in Christ embrace death and lose all hope of being qualified to live. Only those who forsake their own righteousness and plead for Christ's righteousness will LIVE. Are you qualified?
