Ephesians

Ephesians really stuck out to me this week. Several things stuck out. The main one being that salvation did not take place because we earned it but because God planned it. He brings salvation to me despite my unworthiness to be saved. He calls me a saint, and not a sinner. On my best day, I can’t be good enough for Jesus. I am only holy, righteous, and good because of Him. And because of Him, I am blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, accepted in the beloved, adopted into His family, redeemed through His blood, and sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise. I like the part in the reading about the word mysterion or mystery, and how we are not capable to understand the mystery of the Gospel unless God makes it known to us. Mysterion occurs more in Ephesians than any other book, and it “emphasizes the divine disclosure.” This concept of the divine disclosure is driven home in Eph. 1:18, “the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know…” We can’t know God or the power of the Gospel unless the Holy Spirit opens our spiritual eyes to understand it’s mystery. I thank God that Jesus Christ has opened my eyes to see glimpses of His greatness.