I'm Alive!
Well, better said, I'm made alive.
Ephesians 2:1-3
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
=) In fact I deserve wrath, I deserve punishment, I deserve condemnation. I followed the ways of this world, I followed the ways of my craving flesh and I let myself loose.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
How do you define the word "mercy"? Mercy is "not giving what you deserve". How beautiful is His love for us that we are made alive in Him. His mercy for us, has forgiven everything transgression I've done. All the things I deserve, He has not given me, because of His great love!
Even more, by His grace we have been saved!
Grace, is giving what you don't deserve. I don't deserve love, I don't deserve mercy, I don't deserve life, yet out of His abundant love, by His grace I'm made alive!
EVEN MORE, by His grace, "God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2:6-7
SEATED WITH HIM? Can you imagine that glory?! I'm speechless. I mean....I don't know how to put it in words, but to sit with Him?! O God, I'm only a sinful man! Glory to You alone!
I have nothing to boast but Christ Jesus! His mercy and grace know no boundary. His love for me knows no pain nor the cross. His love found me and I cannot boast, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9
I've done nothing to deserve this life, yet He's giving me every reason to take my next breath. "For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." And for this very reason, I live!
Jesus is the Reason I live!
Ephesians 2:1-3
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
=) In fact I deserve wrath, I deserve punishment, I deserve condemnation. I followed the ways of this world, I followed the ways of my craving flesh and I let myself loose.
Ephesians 2:4-5
But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
How do you define the word "mercy"? Mercy is "not giving what you deserve". How beautiful is His love for us that we are made alive in Him. His mercy for us, has forgiven everything transgression I've done. All the things I deserve, He has not given me, because of His great love!
Even more, by His grace we have been saved!
Grace, is giving what you don't deserve. I don't deserve love, I don't deserve mercy, I don't deserve life, yet out of His abundant love, by His grace I'm made alive!
EVEN MORE, by His grace, "God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2:6-7
SEATED WITH HIM? Can you imagine that glory?! I'm speechless. I mean....I don't know how to put it in words, but to sit with Him?! O God, I'm only a sinful man! Glory to You alone!
I have nothing to boast but Christ Jesus! His mercy and grace know no boundary. His love for me knows no pain nor the cross. His love found me and I cannot boast, "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9
I've done nothing to deserve this life, yet He's giving me every reason to take my next breath. "For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." And for this very reason, I live!
Jesus is the Reason I live!
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