Respecting your inheritance.

Herman Witsius has written:

“In the same books therefore, in which the testament is contained, God commanded, that whoever would take comfort from the promised inheritance, should, 1st. Love, search into, meditate upon, and keep in his heart the writings exhibiting the testament, as no contemptible part of his inheritance, Deut. xxxii. 4; nay, esteem them beyond his necessary food, Job xxiii. 12. Deut. vi. 6. 2dly. Highly value, as it deserves, the promised inheritance. (1.) That he hunger and thirst after it, and be satisfied with nothing short of it, Mat. v. 6. (2.) Reckon all other things, in comparison thereof, as loss and dung, Phil. iii. 8. Most readily part with every thing, in order to procure this pearl of inestimable value, Mat. xiii. 46. (3.) Glorify God for the greatness of his love, Ps. xxxi. 19. (4.) Diligently keep what he has received, Rev. ii. 25. and iii. 11. 3dly. So walk, as becometh his condition, and the expectation of so great an inheritance, 1 Thess. ii. 12. 1 john iii. 3. 4thly. Be ready to impart to his brethren, what he has received from his Father, both in temporals and spirituals, Rom. xii. 13. 1 Thess. ii. 8. And endeavour, that others also may be brought to enter on the same inheritance with himself, Acts xxvi. 29. For none suffer any loss for the numbers that partake with him: that he has rather an additional pleasure, his joy being greatly heightened from the abundance of love.”

(Witsius, Herman. The Economy of the Covenants Between God and Man, Volume I, Kingsburg, CA: den Dulk Christian Foundation, 1990, p. 455)