Comment:
When I was a firefighter we often trained on various ways to survive in fire or
other emergency events like confined space. Confined space is just what it is;
an area that is difficult to go through, full of smoke and dark. Survival in
any emergency requires one to control their emotions and adrenalin. Too much
adrenalin and your muscles cramp and fail to work. Too much emotion and panic
is at the door step, followed by wrong choices and often death. Training is always
necessary for survival. Training and teaching it the Holy Bible is a major
subject, the only way to an ongoing relationship with God the Father is through
Jesus Christ. Training began with instruction from God that mankind was to obey
Him. Genesis 2:16-17 is not only a command of God it is also a training
exercise to obey. Training by God never stops to reach out to us. God is Light
and in Him is no darkness, no smoke and His ways are not difficult, see 1 John
4:17-21.
Devotional: Ephesians 2:1-6 – In our
walk through Ephesians and now beginning in chapter two we see that God the
Father trains us that “Grace” God’s grace is the WAY He trains His children. He
reveals that as His child we already have felt His grace at work. Ephesians 2:1
reveals that we were “made alive” or born anew. We were dead in the darkness of
trespass and sin. We walked and move about according to the confinement of the
course of this world. We followed our emotional ways and feared everything, to
fulfil the desire of our flesh;
But God, who is rich in mercy (grace) and because of
His great love for you and me, even while we groped around in this dark confinement
of sin, when we believed, He made us ‘alive’. Together with Christ our only
hope. This grace, God’s amazing grace, even while we were dead in the darkness
of sin and trespass. In believing in Jesus we were made alive, together with
HIM.
If we are a child of God, we are made alive in God
through Christ our LORD by His grace and our personal faith. There are NO HUMAN
WORKS involved, we simply believe God and He does the rest because the REST is
already completed in the death and resurrection of God’s Son on His day of crucifixion
for the sin of the world and His Day of resurrection for the ‘justification’ of
all who by personal faith, believe.
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