Rights

I was pondering about the issue of whether or not I deserve any good thing from God. As a Believer, have I obtained certain rights which I did not have prior to salvation? Is eternal life a 'right' of the Believer? I'm going to throw out the thoughts I've been having and leave it open to discussion. So please comment below with what your thoughts are.

Prior to salvation I was outside of God's family. Once I believed in Christ, I was adopted into His family and am a co-heir with Him. If I am a part of his family, shouldn't I deserve or have rights to the benefits of being in his family? My two younger brothers were adopted, and while they didn't deserve to be adopted, once they were, they deserved to be treated like members of the family. They deserved the same rights as anyone else in the family. It was their entitlement to ask Dad for things and to be able to live with the rest of us.

I hear a lot of Believers talking about various aspects of Christianity that they don't deserve, like being able to converse with Jesus easily, to ask Him for blessings, and to spend eternity with him, etc. While that may have been true at one point in their lives, it isn't any more. As a member of God's family, I do deserve eternal life. I do deserve the blessings God gives in this life. I don't deserve it because of anything I've done, but I deserve it because of my identity in Christ.

Maybe I'm getting hung up on words (the English language lacks much), but does what I'm attempting to communicate make sense? Do you agree? Disagree?