26/08/2016 - WHAT WE ARE IN OUR BELOVED

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To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. -  Ephesians 1.6

As we understand what we are in Christ, we see His importance in our lives, which can be much greater than we think. Without Jesus, we would be nothing, for there would be no other way to recover our lives. Therefore, He bore our sins, paying the price for our redemption. He was the only one who could do this, in order to drive us away from the darkness and transport us to the Kingdom of God. He did this as a pleasing offering to the Father.

In Christ we have been blessed with all kinds of blessings. Even before the world’s foundation, God had already redeemed the entire humanity through His Son, and when sin separated us from Him, He provided our redemption. The Most High blessed us in such a way that He does not remember what we did in the time of our ignorance (Ac 17.30). Our destiny was sealed in the death of Christ in Calvary.

Jesus became our shelter so that we would become holy and irreprehensible before Him, who is complete and holy in every way. What a work! Now we can say no to the sin that dominated us and made us crawl in the mud. It is beyond our capacity to understand what the Lord did for us, but beyond a shadow of a doubt, He has greater things to do for those who believe in Christ. 

The work of our salvation is much greater than what we are informed. The Father predestinated us to become his children, once we receive Jesus as our Savior. Whoever is a son is also an heir, and can participate in all that belongs to the Father. We may also ask for the legitimate inheritance that there is in Christ in advance, since we have become coheirs.

Even if there may be a person that claims everything that the Word says that belongs to them, they will not even come close to using all He has in store for them. The Lord opens our understanding for new things in the same proportion as the divine plan is revealed. What we have received is only a portion of what He has made through His Son. His fountain is endless and there is more in store for us than we can ever imagine.

Through the blood Jesus on the cross, we have salvation. In the riches of His grace, we obtained the forgiveness of our sins and became guiltless before Him, in order to use or right as God’s children and bring due glory to His Name. The victories obtained by David and the other servants of the Lord in the past are small examples of what we can achieve by using our faith in Christ.

The grace of God has done much for us. It has not been poured randomly, with a greater measure upon someone who does not care about it, but with wisdom and prudence. Therefore, be firm and confident in order to attain everything that you feel that belongs to you from God, for there is a purpose in all things.

In Christ, with love,

R. R. Soares