Hello! A few of my dear Christian friends keep blogs about what they learn from God. I started contemplating the reason for blogging and thought that even if no one reads it, it can help organize my thoughts about what I am learning from God. I mean, really, the point of learning from God is so that I can share with others and what better way to share with others than to practice with a blog? If my thoughts are organized here, then when someone on the street asks me what I'm learning, I don't have to come up with some strained answer. So, here goes!
I will be blogging through Ephesians for a while since I am just starting to study the book.
Ephesians 1:3-14:
The part of this passage that God really threw at me was from verses 12 and 14- where Paul says we are to be "for the praise of his glory," and "to the praise of his glory." I am created FOR the praise of his glory!? That is what I was made for?
God prepared my heart to receive this yesterday when I was listening to a podcast by Matt Chandler. He was talking about how we are placed where we are by God to bring him glory. And now, today, I learn that I am FOR his praise!? How cool. This means that where I work (school teacher) is FOR His praise. Where I live (with a family) is FOR his praise. My relationship is FOR his praise. This puts my life into perspective. Am I doing anything in those areas of my life that are not for His praise? If so, then I am in direct disobedience to my purpose.
Knowing that my creation was for His praise gives me new motivation. Through sanctification, my life increasingly needs to look more like His--and TO the praise of His glory.
Thanks be to God for His Word!
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