A Daily Devotional – Ephesians – Personal Meditation (4)

A Daily Devotional – Ephesians – Personal Meditation

Comment: As I march down the path of time, it no longer seems like a march. Age seems stronger then me! What I am saying is most likely said by most people who reach a point in time when the physical life starts giving away to increased “grunts and groans”! Now mind you; I am not complaining as there is no room on my time schedule for that. I am a sinner, like all the rest of us in the world around me and as the apostle Paul has already said in his epistle to the Philippians; “Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended (laid hold of); but one thing I do. Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ/Messiah Jesus.”; as our citizenship is in heaven with Him. see Philippians 3:12-21 for the context.

Devotional: We have briefly looked at chapter one of Ephesians and see the gifts that God gives to all His children at the point of accepting the “Good news” that Christ/Messiah died for the sin of the world. This TRUTH is life-changing for all of God’s redeemed. Now some do not like the use of the word ‘redeemed’ referring it to the “Old Testament sacrificial offerings of lambs and other animals that only partially covered or redeemed a person for a specific period. Yet might I remind us, that redemption is used by the apostle Paul in Ephesians 1:7 and other of his epistles.

The concept of redeem, redeemed or redemption used by Luke, the apostles Paul and Peter, the saints in the book of Revelation and the writer of Hebrews. This clearly helps me to understand that we are “redeemed/purchased with the precious Blood of Christ as God’s LAMB of redemption. John 1:29, the apostle John writes these words of John the Baptizer. “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said. “Behold (look)! The LAMB of God who takes away the sin of the world! 

The point I wish to make with this is that God the Father approved the work of His Son and verifies this truth with the written words of the God the Holy Spirit, via the writers. The work by Jesus Christ redeems all mankind from sin and death. This once for all event in God’s Word will not be repeated, Christ/Messiah is; in this dispensation of the fullness of time the One who gathers together, “all things” both the old things of the Old Testament and the new things of the New Testament”; in Christ. Ephesians 1:9-14. We may never get out of this first chapter of Ephesians!