Ephesians Lesson 2/Day 5

I don’t’ think it’s possible to exaggerate how amazing it is that we were made alive in Christ. Any effort to try to be "religious" or "Christian" which isn’t rooted in understanding this truth is a counterfeit Christian life. It is "godliness" without God, "Christianity" without Christ, "spirituality" without the Spirit. And it can never accomplish anything except to turn people away. What Paul has outlined for us here, and this alone, is true Christianity. Anything else is wrong.  I know it doesn’t always feel very alive. But your feelings aren’t the reality. The power of God in us is like a farmer going out to sow his seed. The farmer scatters his seed, and then what? Jesus says he goes home and goes to bed -- rests just relaxes and lets the seed grow because that is the nature of seed. The farmer knows that if he sows the seed and lets it rest -- it must go through a certain process that takes time; no seed simply falls to the ground and springs up suddenly – voila! Life!. No, you must allow it to decay, to fall apart, and then out of that comes a new life – it grows slowly and steadily until finally the whole plant is grown. This is how God works in us and he wants us to understand that the result is certain and that we can rest patiently, knowing that he is working out his purposes. We have been made alive in Christ! Trust the process! Trust God through it all.