It's one of those rainy days here. And there's thunder and wind on the other side of the curtain.
And I just finished a rain run and am cuddled up in bed with a cup of ginger lime tea.
I can hear the chorus of rain on leaves and the sand.
I'm expecting to hear your voice sing, with your word in my hand.
Kinda looking forward to spending time with you today actually.
Here goes.
Eph:2:1-2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins. You followed the ways of this world and the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit at work in those who are disobedient.
So there was a time when we were dead in our sins, and followed the way of this world and unwittingly were under the rule of the spirit working in the disobedient. But the thing is I still am drawn and sometimes give into those things. I still follow a lot of the systems of the world that distract and demean me, and i feel every time i have something i should do with God the pull to do something else. I often feel the reality of God through the reality of evil in this world.
Selling the lie.
More and more I think Satan's strategy is not to convince the world that God doesn't exist, but that he himself doesn't. That way people will hate themselves and not see their tempter and blame God for the fallen nature of the world, rather than the destroyer of man. He's really ingenious if you think about it. Why tell people there is no God when you can tell them there is and he's awful. Why get them to ignore God, when you can get them to hate him. Why convince them they are tempted by Satan, when you can convince them this is who they are and what they need to be happy.
When I say it like that, i feel like i should feel more guilty. Thinking of all the times I have gone back, and all the times I entertain temptation. If salvation wasn't free. I would not stand a chance.
v3- It's understandable that we were objects of wrath to God living among others like us. Entertaining the thoughts and desires that went with the lifestyle. But does that mean we've been separated from them now that we have been made alive with Christ through the mighty work of God and his resurrection power in us? Saved by grace as a son of God by the son of God with the son of God in the resurrection.
Well we still live with the people we live with, but i guess in God's eyes we are separate from them in that we have received himself into our hearts.
v8- And he did all this so he could in the coming age he could show us the immeasurable treasure of His grace given to us through Christ Jesus.
v8-10
Saved by grace and faith, not by works.
So that no man may boast.
God's workmanship in Christ Jesus,
Made to give our utmost.
We are created in Christ Jesus to do good works, that god prepared for us to do in advance. So when God saves us, we are kinda re-made in Christ Jesus, and we're re-made to fit in the role we were made to fit into in the first place i guess. The role God had in mind from the beginning. I find it Kinda cool, but also kinda sad... one cause I have very little idea of what my purpose is in Christ, apart from spending time with him and trying to help people and my friends as best as I can...
What was I made for?
I guess what I can take away from this, is that God saved His creation which He made to do the good works He prepared for it in advance to do. I being it need to keep my eyes and my heart open to that purpose, and find my place in his kingdom. Find my place in serving His people here on earth, until I go to be with Him. Easier said than done... But I'll give it a shot.
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