Isaiah - Verse By Verse | Walking through Ephesians

Walking through Ephesians - Day 86

versebyverse | February 06, 2008 21:17

Thought: To me, it is good, and often necessary, to meditate on the difference Christ should be making in our lives.

Question: Have I "come to know Christ" in this biblical way?

Scripture: Ephesians 4:20 (NIV): "You, however, did not come to know Christ that way."

What way? The way described in the previous verse: given over to sensuality, indulging every kind of impurity, continually lusting.

The Ephesian believers never found Christ anywhere along the pathway of physical sensualities, that's for sure. Christ was learned via spiritual sensitivities; through the heart responding to God's invisible drawing. God's workings are largely invisible and certainly non-sensual. If feelings do become a part of our experience with God, that is o.k., but faith functions just fine without feelings. If feelings (sensualities) are included, it is because God saves the whole person, and the whole person He created has emotion.

Prayer: Lord, cause me to learn of You in Spirit and in truth, and not through some fleshy experience alone. Amen.