May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory,give you a spirit of wisdom and perception of what is revealed,
to bring you to full knowledge of Him.
May He enlighten the eyes of your mind
so that you can see what hope His call holds for you,
what rich glories He has promised the saints will inherit
and how infinitely great is the power
that He has exercised for us believers.
This you can tell from the strength of His power at work in Christ,
when He used it to raise Him from the dead
and to make Him sit at His right hand, in heaven,
far above every Sovereignty, Authority, Power, or Domination,
or any other name that can be named,
not only in this age but also in the age to come.
He has put all things under His feet,
and made Him, as the Ruler of everything,
the Head of the Church, which is His Body,
the fullness of Him who fills the whole creation.
And you were dead,
through the crimes and sins in which you used to live
when you were following the way of this world,
obeying the ruler who governs the air,
the spirit who is at work in the rebellious.
We all were among them too in the past,
living sensual lives, ruled entirely by our own physical desires
and our own ideas, so that by nature
we were as much under God's anger as the rest of the world.
But God loved us with so much love
that He was generous with His mercy:
When we were dead through our sins,
He brought us to life with Christ—
it is through grace that you have been saved—
and raised us up with Him and gave us a place with Him
in heaven, in Christ Jesus.
This was to show for all ages to come,
through His goodness to us in Christ Jesus,
how infinitely rich He is in grace.
Because it is by grace that you have been saved, through faith;
not by anything of your own, but by a gift from God;
not by anything that you have done,
so that nobody can claim the credit.
We are God's work of art, created in Christ Jesus
to live the good life as from the beginning
He had meant us to live it.
Ephesians 1:17 - 2:10 Jerusalem Bible
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Amen Ramonos,
There is nothing like the pure word of God to refresh and inspire the soul.May He indeed grant us a Spirit of enlightenment. Many books I have read have the verse: "No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
no mind has conceived
what God has prepared for those who love him"—
then they stop and discuss the verse or move into something else.
But Paul goes on and writes:
'but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.'... 'The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man's spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.'
I can not understand why they stop where they do as the message gets better ''but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.'
We do by intuition granted by the Spirit know what God has granted us. We just need to listen to Him within our breasts- it is where Christ our Saviour and Lord is, it is where the Father of all mercy is and the Spirit od love is.
It will also be a place of peace, goodness, holiness,power, grace, patience and joy.
Anything else does not matter as regards size, shape or colour. That God is there is all that matters.That is I blieve the Christian hope.
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