Hot Pursuit; Ephesians

May the mumbling commence!

There are four more days left to spend of our thirty days in Ephesians.  Then we will move on to Philippians.  Let’s make these days count.

How long has God been pursuing us?  A long, long time!  Read from Ephesians chapter one (NLT):

How we praise God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we belong to Christ.  Long ago, even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes.  His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ.  And this gave him great pleasure.

So we praise God for the wonderful kindness he has poured out on us because we belong to his dearly loved Son.  He is so rich in kindness that he purchased our freedom through the blood of his Son, and our sins are forgiven.  He has showered his kindness on us, along with all wisdom and understanding.

God’s secret plan has now been revealed to us; it is a plan centered on Christ, designed long ago according to his good pleasure.  And this is his plan:  At the right time he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ – everything in heaven and on earth. Furthermore, because of Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us from the beginning, and all things happen just as he decided long ago.  God’s purpose was that we who were the first to trust in Christ should praise our glorious God.  And now you also have heard the truth, the Good News that God saves you.  And when you believed in Christ, he identified you as his own by giving you the Holy Spirit, whom he promised long ago.  The Spirit is God’s guarantee that he will give us everything he promised and that he has purchased us to be his own people.  This is just one more reason for us to praise our glorious God. (Verses 3-14)

God loved us even before the creation of the universe!  Talk about patience.  As we pursue God and others that we love, let us show this same patience – a patience that sees its object of pursuit as holy and without blame.

And God is more than patient.  God has designed all his works to pursue us.  This pursuit and design is to the good pleasure of God.  And the designs of the Lord will come to fruition – just as God decided so long ago.

God is patient is his pursuit of us.  God has elaborate designs on us.  And God will make good on all the promises that he has given us.  The Holy Spirit is the down payment on all these promises.

God’s pursuit of us is a hot pursuit that never cools with time or circumstance.

Praise God!

Enough mumbling for now…

Peace Out