A Daily Devotional - Ephesians - Personal Meditation (6)

A Daily Devotional - Ephesians - Personal Meditation

Comment: If you lack training and experience in any process or profession of life, then you are like a dead man when tasked with the thought of accomplishing anything in that process or profession. This is not rocket science, is it? No, it is just plain common sense. Let me take this thought a step further in that all of us are well experienced is trespassing God’s Will; we lie, steal, slander and commit a host of other sins against our neighbor and think nothing of it. Also, we take the Name of God and use it to defame and destroy. This is what the apostle Paul is aimed at when he writes under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit in Ephesians 2:1-3. People who are not regenerated (saved or born-again) from this form of living are DEAD to living as God has willed. 2 Peter 3:9 says this; “The LORD is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance”. The work of repentance is a response that cannot happen to anyone who fails to hear and believe the gospel of Jesus Christ. 

Devotional: Ephesians 2:6-13 – By personal faith in the gospel of God we are no longer dead in the old way of life. It remains dead and we are now made alive in Christ who is our new way of life; He has made us alive in Him. We are raised out of our life of the past (which is dead) and we are now ‘made alive in Him’; the scripture is clear, this wonderful miracle was provided by God by His Grace, through our personal faith. This is the ongoing result of the training we believed in when we heard the Good News and changed our mind (repented) about Jesus.

We who are saved are “raised us” from a life of sin and death; our new position is, in Christ (the sinless Son of God) and now we are made to sit with Him in the heavenlies. Yes, our experience here on earth remains to be bombarded with sin and failure, but God is at work in each of us. He is at work doing His Will in us, that in the ages to come, He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward each of us in Christ Jesus; the Messiah.

All of this is provided by God, we only need to believe; believing is moving away from the ignorance of being dead to God. “For by grace (God’s grace) you and I are saved through faith. This grace is not a work it is a gift, it is something we do not have, we can only receive it by faith. It is God’s gift to anyone who trusts God. Thus in believing we become the work of God, created in Christ for God’s work, which God prepared beforehand that we ought to walk in the work of God. In this there is no boasting.