SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 10/25/2018
10:38 AM
My Worship Time Focus:
PT-5 “The Aspects of Blessings”
Bible Reading & Meditation Reference: Ephesians
1:3
Message of the
verses: “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,”
It looks like we finally made it to
the last aspect of blessing found in verse three of Ephesians chapter on.
THE BLESSING AGENT—JESUS CHRIST
I
first want to say that I covet your prayers for me as I continue on through
this wonderful book of Ephesians. God
has been reminding me of things that I knew but when you don’t use things you
seem to forget them. I have mentioned in an earlier SD that we see the words “in
Christ” and “in Him” many times in this book and that is the case at the last
part of verse three which I have highlighted.
We as believers possess every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places
because we are “in Christ.” Being in
Christ happens as soon as a person accepts the Lord Jesus Christ as their
personal Savior as believers are placed in a marvelous union with our
Savior. 1 Corinthians 6:17 says “But the
one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.”
John MacArthur writes “Our unity as Christians is more than simply that
of common agreement; it is the unity of a commonness of life, the common
eternal life of God that pulses through the soul of every believer (cf. Rom.
15:5-7).” “5 Now may the God who
gives perseverance and encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ
Jesus, 6 so that with
one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ.7 Therefore,
accept one another, just as Christ also accepted us to the glory of God.”
I
realize that this is hard to believe, at least for me but all that the Lord
has, those in Christ have. I believe
this is true for a couple of reasons that I can think of off the top of my
head. The first reason is because of the
love that God has for us as He wants all of His children to be like His
Son. The second reason I can think of is
that in order for us to enter into heaven we have to be spotless and that
happens when we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior and Lord. Now I am not saying that we don’t sin after
accepting the Lord, but when we do we are to confess it to the Lord as 1 John
1:9 tells us, but our position in Christ is perfection as it has to be in order
to be with Him. Paul writes the
following (for you my sister) in Romans 8:16-17 “16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of God: 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and
joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may
be also glorified together (KJV).”
MacArthur
concludes this rather short section: “Christ’s
riches are our riches, His resources are our resources, His righteousness is
our righteousness, and His power is our power.
His position is our position:
where He is, we are. His
privilege is our privilege: what He is
we are. His possession is our
possession: what He has we have. His
practice is our practice: what He does,
we do.
“We
are those things and have those things and do those things by the grace of God,
which never fails
to work His will in those who trust Him (1 Cor. 15:10).” “But by the grace of God I am what I am, and
His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of
them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.”
I
don’t think that I have ever written so many Spiritual Diaries on one verse,
and yet there is much to learn from this 3rd verse of Ephesians chapter
one. Lord willing, we will begin to look
at “The Elements of the Eternal Forming of the Body” in our next SD. This section also has multiple sub-sections
to it and we will be covering Ephesians 1:4-6a as we look at how the body of
Christ is formed, or should I say was formed in eternity past which is a part
of God’s eternal plan that forms the church which is the Body of Christ.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: I suppose that I may have some wrong
conclusions as to all that has been looked at today, and it is my prayer that
the Holy Spirit of God will show me the things that He wants to teach me
regarding all we have looked at today.
My Steps of Faith for Today: Have a teachable spirit so that the Spirit of
God can teach me, and reinforce the things that we have been looking at in Eph.
1:3.
Answer to yesterday’s Bible
question: “Four” (2 Kings 15:12).
Today’s Bible question: “Through what does God now manifest His Word?”
Answer in our next SD.
10/25/2018 11:50 AM
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