Signed, Sealed and Delivered!

How sure is our salvation? How clear has God made His plan and desire for us? We live in a world that constantly blames God for its ills; "if God is loving than why is there so much suffering?" A world that does not seek Him, but demands that He proves Himself to them! Yet, when we humble our heart...quiet our mouths and listen to what God states about this salvation He offers...we will not only lose any doubt of His goodness...but will realize how unworthy we really are to have the commitment of the most powerful Person in existence!

Ephesians 1:3–14 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places

Our Lord bestows on us blessings, and we need to realize they are not temporal. God blesses all with temporal blessings, as He states:

Matthew 5:45 “for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.”

Our Lord blesses us with an eternal perspective. Everything He shares with us will last forever!

in Christ, ⁴ just as He chose us in Him

Remember – we did not love Him first. Has been the One seeking – us!

1 John 4:19 We love, because He first loved us.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so, people cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end.

before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love ⁵ He predestined us to adoption as sons

He did not make us slaves as the false gods do – He made us family!

through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,

His will for all is not based on egocentric intentions or dictatorial intentions...but KIND intentions! The loudest cheerleader we have in our life is the Almighty God! 

⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

The very thing the world accuses God of is the very opposite of what He has done. The world acts as though God makes us earn our relationship with Him...nothing is more a lie from the pit of Hell than that! God paid it all, did it all, offered it all...to ALL! We can do nothing but accept or reject it.

⁷ In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses,

according to the riches of His grace ⁸ which He lavished on us.

Why in the world people believe God is stingy!? Nothing is further from the reality. Not only does He supply everything needed to be cleansed completely from our sin so we can live in heaven with Him, but He Himself indwells us and makes us His temple to guarantee our victory in our walk with Him.  

In all wisdom and insight ⁹ He made known to us the mystery of His will,

False gods never bring their slaves in on their plans. Our Lord not only brings us into His confidence, He allows us to participate in the fulfillment of that plan!

according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him ¹⁰ with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth. In Him ¹¹ also we have obtained an inheritance,

Consider – the gods of this world promise their followers an eternity of service to them and their needs! Our God has promised us that He will share Himself and His riches with us, He has no needs! He WANTS us...not needs us!

having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, ¹² to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. ¹³ In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation—having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise,

How great it is to not have to count on our emotions to determine if we are safe and secure when it comes to eternity. God has made our salvation secured...not by our works, feelings, ministries or anything else. He is our security! So the next time you wonder what the chances are that you might not make it to heaven...ask yourself...Did I repent of my sins and trust Christ to save me. If yes than as long as God is God...your safe! If your answer is anything less than a solid “yes I have trusted Christ” than I encourage you to ask Jesus to forgive you of your sin and place your entire trust for your eternity in His death and resurrection.

¹⁴  who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His glory.

Who is like our God? Everything and everyone else must get in line to touch us...because we are His possession! No sin, no demon, no habit, no sickness...NOTHING can demand us. He alone owns us...so He alone has the right to all that we have and are. Start each day out remembering all of this...your day will be different!