Wow. It really has been a week since the last post, hasn't it?!
With school being out and summer here I feel like we have been celebrating all week long!
Which is beautiful because our community here does celebrate well!
Summer time in our home consists of 2 boys and 1100 sq. feet. Lord help me!
And several trips to the nearest snow cone stand! As many times as I want to lock myself in my room and give myself a "time out" there are so much beauty in these moments... I call our life a "beautiful chaos."
Today, find the beauty in the chaos around you... I know it will be there and promise it is beautiful.
Alright ladies, lets continue this journey with Paul as we finish up chapter one in Ephesians.
13-14 It’s
in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this
Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free—signed, sealed,
and delivered by the Holy Spirit. This signet from God is the first
installment on what’s coming, a reminder that we’ll get everything God
has planned for us, a praising and glorious life.
"Signed, sealed and delivered! I yours!" Each time I read this, this song pops into my head! But there is truth here. Paul saying that when we come under the submission of Christ, following him, it is "signed, sealed and delivered." We are His! When something is signed, sealed and delivered it is finished. Nothing can be done to correct or change it. Nothing.
Because of Christ and that he paid the price for us, it is finished! There is nothing more that needs to be done, nothing.
He is putting all things back to its right and proper place that he has planned for us...let us give him all the praise and glory for this life.
We are "Signed, sealed, and delivered."
As a wife of a church planter and living life as a missionary, I find myself throwing my hands up and with nothing left to give, to serve.
But as a mama, a wife, a neighbor, a friend "stopping" never an option. I still have to keep moving. We still have to keep moving.
When I find myself with my hands up, wanting to raise the white flag, or to wash my hands of it all, I often feel The Father grab my face and whisper "Finally! You cannot do this life without me. I am the one who raised him from death and set him
on a throne in deep heaven, in charge of running the universe,
everything from galaxies to governments, no name and no power exempt
from his rule. And not just for the time being, but forever. He
is in charge of it all, has the final word on everything. At the center
of all this, Christ rules the church. The church, you see, is not
peripheral to the world; the world is peripheral to the church. The
church is Christ’s body, in which he speaks and acts, by which he fills
everything with his presence."
"Ladies, don't forget who I am!"
He fills everything with his presence... going back to the beginning, if he fills everything with his presence there is life there and where there is life, there is beauty.
As Paul prays this for the faithful followers in Ephesus I then pray for you.
That’s
why, when I heard of the solid trust you have in the Master Jesus and
your outpouring of love to all the followers of Jesus, I couldn’t stop
thanking God for you—every time I prayed, I’d think of you and give
thanks. But I do more than thank. I ask—ask the God of our Master, Jesus
Christ, the God of glory—to make you intelligent and discerning in
knowing him personally, your eyes focused and clear, so that you can see
exactly what it is he is calling you to do, grasp the immensity of this
glorious way of life he has for his followers, oh, the utter
extravagance of his work in us who trust him—endless energy, boundless
strength!
-Amen
Its because of Christ, in whom we are living for. He gives us endless energy and boundless strength. Thank you Jesus we are not expected to do this on our own.
