Weekly Pursuit – Week 2 of April
Verses:
Eph. 1:4 “Even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish before Him in love.”
Excerpts:
We will be holy and without blemish before Him in love. Love in Ephesians 1:4 refers to the love with which God loves His chosen ones and with which His chosen ones love Him. It is in this love, in such a love, that God’s chosen ones become holy and without blemish before Him. First, God loved us. Then this divine love inspires us to love Him in return. In such a condition and atmosphere of love, we are saturated with God to be holy and with out blemish, just as He is. In this love, a mutual love, God loves us, and we return this love to Him. It is in this kind of condition that we are being transformed. Under such a condition we are being saturated with God.
Paul says specifically that we are rooted and grounded in love. In order to experience Christ, we need faith and love. Faith enables us to receive and apprehend Christ, and love enables us to enjoy Him. Neither faith nor love are ours; they are His. His faith becomes our faith, by which we believe in Him, and His love becomes our love, by which we love Him. The love in which we are rooted and grounded is the divine love realized and experienced by us in a practical way. With such a love we love the Lord, and with that same love we love one another. In such a love we grow in life and are built up in life. Paul’s thought here regarding the relationship between the experience of Christ and the matters of life and building is surely deep and profound. ( Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 32, 277)
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