Today’s Scriptures from Ephesians 1 is an exercise dilemma. There is so much in the passage it’s difficult to know where to begin. Where to focus.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.
Ephesians 1:3-4
For our time I want to focus on the amazing truth that we were chosen by God before the foundation of the world!
That is mind-boggling!
But note something else in that statement of reality: “that we should be holy and blameless before Him.”
Ok, that part may be a problem.
He “has blessed us…and chose us…that we should be holy and blameless.”
I know my life and decisions. I know my heart and mind. They certainly aren’t blameless.
Neither are yours.
But our text doesn’t lift us up in amazement just to dash us back down to reality.
What He demands, He has also supplied.
As we read on, “In [Jesus] we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses.”
We were not holy and blameless, but that wasn’t going to thwart God’s choice of us before the foundation of the world! Our sin wasn’t going to stop His predestined plan of adoption of us, nor would it stop His requirement of us being holy and blameless before Him for eternity.
The solution?
Jesus!
Through faith in Him, we are forgiven. We are made right with Him. We are purified. We are holy. We are now blameless before Him!
Mind boggling!
“Thank You, Lord, for choosing us before the foundation of the world, redeeming us by Your blood, and through faith, making us holy and blameless before You! Grant that we live and share that reality and blessing with others!”
Scriptures
- Psalm 85:1-13
- Ephesians 1:3-14
