December 27, 2018

BLESSED

Ephesians 1:3-6

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

Encouraging Words

There is so much that could be unpacked from these four verses. Because of Jesus, who He is, the incarnate Son of God, and what He has done, lived a sinless life as a human and yet was crucified and rose from the dead, we are blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. What more can we hope for than this? But our blessings do not stop here. He chose us, all of mankind, before the foundation of the world was laid, to be adopted into His heavenly family through Christ. As we choose to not reject Him and to be received into Him then we become members of His royal family. Through Jesus, we are blessed and made acceptable to be in the presence of the Almighty and sinless God. Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, the sinner!