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Walking through Ephesians - Day 45

versebyverse | December 06, 2007 19:36

Thought:  To me, God's power to reach and change and build me personally is fantastic and immeasureable!

Question:  Have you come to the full blessing of God's maximum inclusion of you into His "building project"?

Scripture:  Ephesians 2:22 (NIV):  "And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit."

Now Paul applies these truths about the church universal to another level:  the local church, the Ephesian Christians.  He says that "you too", any handful of believers anywhere, are currently being built together as well.  God is seeking to make of "you too" a dwelling for His Spirit.  The goal for both church universal and local is to be Spirit-filled, Spirit-indwelt.  I like the tense of verb here:  "are being built."  It is an on-going, present activity.  We are in process.  This is an encouragement.  No doubt any building project experiences moments of seeming defeat, downturn or even disaster, but the end results become the proof of the Master-Builder's ability.

Take this analogy down to another level:  past universality and locality, into the very life of the individual. "You too," an individual believer, are being "built together" to become an acceptable dwelling-place for God to live in.  "You too", individual Christian, are in process, day by day becoming more and more conformed to Jesus Christ, more and more full of His Holy Spirit.

"A dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit" is a fantastic phrase to meditate upon.  God can live in us!  We used to be separated from Him completely, but when we received Christ, we began to "house" God.  Can The Living God Almighty be housed?  Yes!  He lives in thousands, millions of believers' hearts and is working to fill their lives with His Spirit!  What a fantastic and marvellous thing!  Praise the Lord!

Prayer:  Oh, my God and Master, praise Your Most Powerful Name!  Your strengthening and building up of me is SO WONDROUS--thank You!  Amen. 

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Full blessing of God

Bkay | 12/07/2007, 07:07

I hope I never come to God's full blessing of His maximum inclusion of me in His "building project". I want Him to continue working on me, blessing me daily. Not sure if His full blessing wouldn't kill me! Since full blessing would be a "relative term", each person feeling his blessing in a different way, or measuring it differently. I feel His blessing everyday, just waking up in the morning. His blessing me by keeping me safe each day I drive the bus to school, and deliver the children safely. His building project is constantly in flux! Changes made and improvements all the time. Rearranging furniture within my soul. I am His building project and He is maximally included in my life. Thank God!!!
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