“Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light” Colossians 1:12

What is it that makes a sinner meet [able or fit] to be a partaker [have a share in] the inheritance of the saints? In other words, how can any of us hope to enjoy the privilege of eternal life with God? The verse very clearly says that it is the inheritance of THE SAINTS, therefore to be made meet, must of necessity include being made as holy as God Himself. How can this be?

As in any inheritance, the beneficiaries are named by the Father, who purposes to bequest what He has to His children. Ephesians 1:4 says, ‘according as HE hath chosen us in him [Christ] before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him.’ And yet, it does not say that our election is what has made us meet. “That we should be holy,” signifies God’s purpose to make holy those He eternally chose, but this had yet to be accomplished by the shedding of the blood of His Son, the ONLY ground of forgiveness of sins as stated in Ephesians 1:7. Hebrews 9:15 reveals that it was by means of the death of Christ that those under the first testament received the promise of eternal inheritance. God was not favorable to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or any of His elect in the Old Testament period because He had merely decreed them justified. No, the Scriptures say that He was forbearing with their sin (Romans 3:25), and did not impute their sin to them (Ps. 32:2), having purposed to justify them and give them eternal life and glory based on the death that the LORD Jesus would accomplish for them. It is ONLY the death of the Testator that has made any of us meet!