April 4, 2016-RTM, Day 11

Today’s Verse:

I am blessed with all spiritual blessings (Ephesians 1:3).

In Context:

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure. (Ephesians 1:3-5)

Wow, isn’t this an encouraging passage! It just makes me feel special, important, and loved.  I am blessed with all spiritual blessings, simply because God wanted to do it, and it made him happy to do so.  Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.  Even today, the songs I most enjoy in church services are when we go back to the old hymns I grew up with in the Southern Baptist church. Why? I think it’s because they are so heartfelt and humbling.  They give credit and tribute back to God, where it belongs and recognize that we are nothing without Him.  It seems that we, as a human race, become more selfish and self-centered with each passing year, each fleeting decade, so to read of a God who adopts, blesses, and brings us into his family (despite our faults) just because He wanted to is AMAZING! I was lucky to be raised in the church and to start out my life with a childlike faith. My faith has carried me through more than I ever knew it could…God has carried me through more than I ever could have done alone. 

In a world that more often than not forgets about God (except in the most dire of circumstances), I choose to continue to believe in what I cannot see, to believe in what I cannot prove, but I know in my heart to be true.  Why? Because I have been blessed with all spiritual blessings and many other types of blessings that I most certainly do NOT deserve, and the only rational explanation, to me, for such blessing is the hand of a higher power up above, a creator who cares more about us than we could ever imagine or comprehend.  Renewing my mind this week means remembering that I am blessed, and not because of anything I have done to deserve it, but in spite of all that I have done to NOT deserve it.