the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Ephesians 1:1-14
The epistle to the Ephesians looks at the Christian in his heavenly position. Heaven is not only a future habitation for the child of God. Even now he has his dwelling place there in Christ. The head of a family who works away from home does not confuse the factory or the office with his home. To be absent from the house in no way prevents him from having his home there, where all his affections are, his interests, all he possesses. Such is heaven for the Christian: the well-known place where both his treasure and his heart are to be found (Luke 12:34), because his Saviour is there. Christ is in heaven, and we are in Christ. These two facts assure us of our right of access to heavenly places, and the precious blessings which are ours in consequence. All that concerns the Well-Beloved equally concerns those who are accepted in Him (v. 6). That is why the apostle develops here the fulness of God’s purposes in Christ (source of every blessing) in this lengthy passage (vv. 3-14), which allows no diminution, for everything holds together and is bound together in the mind of God. Moreover, what He does for us is inseparable from that which He does for Christ and must finally accrue "to the praise of his glory" (v. 12), and "to the praise of the glory of his grace" (v. 6).
