Victory in Jesus
One in Jesus Christ
Ephesians 3:7-13
The Message
7-8 This
is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message.
It came as a sheer gift to me, a real surprise, God handling all the
details. When it came to presenting the Message to people who had no
background in God’s way, I was the least qualified of any of the
available Christians. God saw to it that I was equipped, but you can be
sure that it had nothing to do with my natural abilities.
8-10 And so here I am, preaching and writing about things that are way over my head, the inexhaustible riches and generosity of Christ. My task is to bring out in the open and make plain what God, who created all this in the first place, has been doing in secret and behind the scenes all along. Through followers of Jesus like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels!
11-13 All this is proceeding along lines planned all along by God and then executed in Christ Jesus. When we trust in him, we’re free to say whatever needs to be said, bold to go wherever we need to go. So don’t let my present trouble on your behalf get you down. Be proud!
8-10 And so here I am, preaching and writing about things that are way over my head, the inexhaustible riches and generosity of Christ. My task is to bring out in the open and make plain what God, who created all this in the first place, has been doing in secret and behind the scenes all along. Through followers of Jesus like yourselves gathered in churches, this extraordinary plan of God is becoming known and talked about even among the angels!
11-13 All this is proceeding along lines planned all along by God and then executed in Christ Jesus. When we trust in him, we’re free to say whatever needs to be said, bold to go wherever we need to go. So don’t let my present trouble on your behalf get you down. Be proud!
For Reflection
God
hands us all manner of gifts. With those gifts we are both blessed and
charged with the task to use these gifts in obedience to God's will.
It is sometimes a surprise that those gifts with which one is most uncomfortable are often the gifts God wants one to use the most. Paul had the gift of a brilliant mind and an ability to engage others. God also lead him to education and position. When it was time, He asked Saul to be reborn into Paul and speak of things formally unknown to him. Even though Paul knew he was doing and writing about that which he knew little, he was obedient to God and God made the unknowable plain.
In Christ the truth is knowable. Walk in the path God has set for you and He will work His mystery in and through you.
It is sometimes a surprise that those gifts with which one is most uncomfortable are often the gifts God wants one to use the most. Paul had the gift of a brilliant mind and an ability to engage others. God also lead him to education and position. When it was time, He asked Saul to be reborn into Paul and speak of things formally unknown to him. Even though Paul knew he was doing and writing about that which he knew little, he was obedient to God and God made the unknowable plain.
In Christ the truth is knowable. Walk in the path God has set for you and He will work His mystery in and through you.
Pray
for
the courage to follow Gods will in your life. Pray that you will
respond to God's direction when His secret agenda for you is revealed.
Pray that you will trust in Him, say what needs to be said, and bold in
the journeys God sets before you.
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