This week we have been listening to the wisdom of Paul in the book of Ephesians. I wonder what thoughts are roaming around your mind and stirring in your soul? Does God’s unconditional love and unceasing grace sound too good to be true? Is the gospel of the world where struggle and stress are just “normal” trying to object to God’s love? Is the gospel of our ego saying, “Wait, what do you mean I can just rest in God’s grace rather than trying to earn and achieve and strive for more?”
What would it mean to live in the goodness of God’s love, not just intellectually but physically, emotionally and spiritual? I am asking this more than rhetorically. What would that mean for you? How would you live physically if God’s love had the first and last word? What would it mean that God’s first word to you in the morning is, “Beloved” and the last word at night before you lay your head down to sleep is, “Beloved”? What would this mean to you emotionally, could such a truth cause your inner critic to be silent for just a moment or stumble over its constant commentary on your brokenness? What would it mean that we don’t earn or deserve or believe our way to God, God is love.
What would that really mean if what we say about God is how we live with God? Take this question, seek to live this question, and pray with me the fifth verse of Take My Life.
Take my will and make it
thine;
it shall be no longer mine.
Take my heart it is thine own;
it shall be thy royal throne,
it shall be thy royal throne.
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