More Thoughts...Ephesians 5:7-17

Getting beyond justification…More thoughts from Ephesians 5:7-17.

Praise Him, yes, He forgave my sins through His awesome sacrifice, but His work for us on the cross becomes His work in us to teach us to be like Himself. Not Him of course, but like Him in our character. Being careful means learning from Him how to live my life as He would lead my life.

In the language of Lewis;
Being the sort of people who just wouldn’t live any other way.

We learn how to have His thoughts, His actions and responses to the evil day in which we actually live.
It is a life-long process, perhaps, we might say, an eternity long process.

One who does things to meet the grace of God in their life (disciplines of the spiritual life) will come to know the truth, the actuality and reality of His life in them and the action of the Kingdom of God with them.
In turn they will be enabled to walk free from the bondage of sin and enjoy a life of growing fullness in their knowledge of God.

That is the eternity He has set in the hearts of men and for which our now redeemed soul desperately longs. This is where we go together as His special people He has and is calling out of human history.