Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Ephesians 1: 3   " 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.. "  

He "chose us".
He "predestined us to adoption as sons".
He "freely bestowed"  grace on us.
He redeemed us.
He forgave our trespasses.
He "lavished" upon us the "riches of His grace."
He "made known to us the mystery of His will." 
He has given us an "inheritance". 
He "sealed" us in "Him with the Holy Spirit of promise."
  

Why?
Because He loves us.
Because He is kind.
Because He is rich in grace.
Because of His wisdom and insight.
Because He has kind intentions for us.
Because..  "according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will." 
Because "He put all things in subjection under His ( Jesus') feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, and the fulness of Him who fills all in all." 

"But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive with Christ.. " ( 2:4)

Spurgeon writes.. " Regard every spiritual mercy as an assurance of the Lord's communion with thee....Look then, on every motion of grace in thine heart as a pledge and sign of the moving of thy Savior's heart towards thee.  There is His whole heart in the bowels of every mercy which He sends thee. He has impressed the kiss of love upon each gift, and He would have thee believe that every jewel of mercy is a token of His boundless love.  Look on thy adoption, justification, and preservation, as sweet enticements to fellowship... like the ringing of the bells.. inviting thee to come to the banquet of His love."

Father in heaven, You are the Father of glory and we ask that You would give to us "the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.. "  Enlighten the eyes of our hearts.. to know the "hope of His calling"; the "surpassing greatness of His power";  and riches of His glory. May we know more and more His boundless love and Your great glory and blessings.
For it is in the name that is above all names, the name of Jesus Christ the Lord, that we come. Amen.

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