Eternal
It's so good to be able to spend time with the body of Christ! It has been such a blessing to what God has been doing in my own life, showing me that I am not at a point of being a good leader. I want to be more for the Lord's sake! And yet it seems that so many people in this life just feel that mediocrity is okay...even within the amazing gift known as the body of Christ! We have been given EVERYTHING from our Lord. Paul speaks in Ephesians how we as believers should realize this: Because of the actions of both God the Father, and Jesus Christ the Son, we have been blessed with EVERY blessing within the heavenly places in Christ! (Ephesians 1:3) Therefore, I pose this question to both myself and you all who read, why do we not live for what really matters so much of the time?
I don't care who you are or how you've lived recently, but know and understand this: If you have put your faith in Jesus Christ as your redeemer, God has given you everything you need already within the spiritual realm! Surprisingly enough, before the Lord used Paul for this amazing letter of Ephesians, he used him to write another letter to another church, the Philippian Church. In that letter, Paul states this: "For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ." (Phil. 3:20) Why did Paul write this before he wrote Ephesians? ... Because that was his mindset! PAUL WAS ALL ABOUT THE ETERNAL! The dude was destroyed for the sake of the Gospel (2 Cor. 11:24-27). He went through so much in our own human perspective, but I am willing to bet that his focus was on God. He lived a life of sacrifice, love, hurt, pain, brokenness, but there was so much joy from his heart, because he knew who his God, who was, is, and is to come!
May we as the body of Christ continue to strive for excellence in our lives and set our minds on the prize... one day, we will finally meet our Creator...
Blessings
I don't care who you are or how you've lived recently, but know and understand this: If you have put your faith in Jesus Christ as your redeemer, God has given you everything you need already within the spiritual realm! Surprisingly enough, before the Lord used Paul for this amazing letter of Ephesians, he used him to write another letter to another church, the Philippian Church. In that letter, Paul states this: "For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ." (Phil. 3:20) Why did Paul write this before he wrote Ephesians? ... Because that was his mindset! PAUL WAS ALL ABOUT THE ETERNAL! The dude was destroyed for the sake of the Gospel (2 Cor. 11:24-27). He went through so much in our own human perspective, but I am willing to bet that his focus was on God. He lived a life of sacrifice, love, hurt, pain, brokenness, but there was so much joy from his heart, because he knew who his God, who was, is, and is to come!
May we as the body of Christ continue to strive for excellence in our lives and set our minds on the prize... one day, we will finally meet our Creator...
Blessings
posted by Steve Pyfrom at 12:11 AM
1 Comments:
Keeping an eternal perspective, it seems so easy when sitting in chapel or class, but once out of that environment its equally easy to be caught in day to day life.
~Heidi
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