Ephesians
1:3-6 NKJV
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with
every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, [4] just as He chose
us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before Him in love, [5] having predestined us to adoption as sons
by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, [6] to
the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the
Beloved.
In
Judges, we see how men went on and off from God's relationship radar because we
kept sinning and then repenting. Man's inconsistency is littered across the old
testament. Our unwavering nature created an epileptic mechanism of God's
love that made God look wicked. God is the Father of spirits and the
master of all. To occupy that seat, He has to uphold values like impartiality,
holiness, righteousness. So when a man sinned, He had to be punished. If God
wavered or flickered or was inconsistent in His judgement, then He is not God.
He had a law and He upheld that law above His name. (An insight into building
sustainable communities).
So
God's ultimate plan was to keep the flow constant and stop the breaks and intermittence.
He wanted to create a mechanism that keeps seeing man as up to par, measuring
up with what God can give.
Enter
Christ. Christ is God’s full stack solution; the concept of Christ includes the
Annointed One and His Annointing comprising Jesus and all Jesus represents but
it also includes the Holy Ghost. Understanding the concept of The Christ is
stepping into the reality of Jesus, His coming, His dying and His resurrection and
then continuing beyond that into the ministry of the Holy Ghost. Jesus pleased
the Father and only in Christ do we fulfil all the criteria to be recipients of
God's love, His grace and His mercy. Christ is God’s scalable solution. In Him
we receive, that we may become and give.
When
we step into Christ and remain in Him, we enjoy God’s lavish, continuous and
persistence flow of love and spiritual gifts. What happens when we are in
Christ is not just benefits but also transformation through commitment. God
wrapped us in Christ to create an everlasting culture of relationship and
communion and God is blessed by having sons return to glory, back to the
garden, to the cool of evening meetings.
In
Christ, God has adopted us, our adoption in God is a forethought and not a
curative strategy or an afterthought. One of the mentalities that plague
children in orphanage homes is the thought of not being wanted or rejected. You
might be reading this today and feel like you have been abandoned, hurt at your
parents for dying and leaving you alone, angry with your mum or dad for not
staying and fighting to keep you. That singular mindset has formed a stronghold
that has snowballed into different reactions that even you don’t like but you
feel like you can’t stop but I’m here to tell you that God chose you in
Christ, He reviewed your profile and said He wants you! You are His choice
in Christ. What an invitation, what a privilege. You are God’s choice, not as
an afterthought, but as a forethought. You were part of His plan all along, you
are not a knee jerk reaction.
In Christ, God has blessed us with
spiritual gifts and spiritual gifts are exactly what they are – spiritual gifts; incorruptible, undefiled,
reserved in heaven for us. Anything earthly and earth bound is not a spiritual
gift. Not cars, not houses, not jobs, not clothes. Spiritual gifts do not
respond to earth laws; not the law of diminishing returns, not the law of
gravity. They are not subject to decay. Spiritual gifts are resident in our
spirits and find expression in our flesh. So if you are not in touch with your
inner core and your real essence then you can't access them. God is Spirit, He
gives spiritual gifts and they are accessed by our spirits.

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