"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe." Eph 1:18-19
Paul begins his letter to the Ephesians with a powerful exhortation espousing the many benefits of being a child of God. His enthusiasm comes across like an infomercial about Christian privilege that is not to be purchased but given as a free gift.
Beloved we must know and celebrate who we are in the Lord. It is not that we are anything in and of ourselves, but who we have been made to be in Christ. By God's grace through faith we have been shown the light, called forth from the darkness, rescued from the hand of Satan, saved, been made righteous through Christ's sacrifice and adopted into the very family of God. Being able to claim sonship and daughterhood of the living God is an extraordinary gift.
Surely we must keep uppermost in our minds that one day we will be liberated from the mortality of this flesh and all the aches, pain and sin that so closely accompany it. We must cast our eyes toward an inheritance that is not worthy to be compared with that of some rich uncle who has completed his journey and gone on to be with the Lord. We must hold close the knowledge of the power that caused Jesus to be raised from the dead because that power is alive and at work within us.
As you go through your days, remember who you are in the Lord.
In Revival,
Lee
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