Ephesians 1:11
11 Furthermore, because we are united with Christ, we have received an inheritance from God, for he chose us in advance, and he makes everything work out according to his plan.
Again this is another great verse and somewhat similar to yesterday’s blog but when things are repeated in the Bible there is a definite point trying to be made. Here is what I think is trying to be driven home in the first 11 verses of Ephesians 1.
1. Christ is essential, crucial, and required.
2. God has unimaginable things in store for those who trust in Christ.
3. He chose us, we did not choose Him and he did so before we ever did anything good or bad.
4. God is in complete control.
It is the last part of this verse that strikes me today. He makes everything work out. Everything means everything, the good stuff and the bad stuff. God as the uncanny ability to take what we think is the absolute worst thing that we could possibly think of and turn it into good. To turn it into something to that was part of His plan to begin with. I spoke to a person just yesterday that had been in prison. They never told me why but whatever it was I’m sure that it was bad for that person, their family, not to mention if they did something to or hurt someone else. But what they did tell me was that they had been born again in prison and had accepted Christ. Did God put them in prison, no it was the result of their sinful nature, however God is god enough to use that situation to bring that person to Christ because before time it was in His plan for that person to be a follower of Christ.
When we say or hear that everything happens for a reason, the hard part for some is to figure out what the reason is. When you know the reason is God it makes it easier to take but we still don’t know why or how He does it.
How does He do it? I do not know, but I'm sure glad that He does.
As a Christian the sovereignty of God is the easiest and yet the hardest thing to understand.
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