Inherit
![Wall painting on the Old Chapel, Elston UK This is a wall-painting at the Elston Chapel in Nottinghamshire, England. The photograph is part of the Geograph Project, created to collect images of historic sites in the U.K. and Ireland.](/bundles/ncbsw/media/Elston_Old_Chapel%2C_Wall_paintings_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1620045.webp)
The Lord created us to be separate from Himself, so that He could love us. He thus allows us to act contrary to His will -- to want what is evil and to believe what is false. When we accept the Lord, though -- by learning what's true and determining to live according to it -- we can let Him place inside us a love for what is good. That is our "inheritance.
Malachi 1:1-3
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An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
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"I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob;
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but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness."