Today, I am reading and commenting on Ephesians 1-3.

In this letter to the Ephesians Paul writes that all of us at one time lived in transgressions and sins.  As a result we did not truly live but were dead from those sins and transgressions.  However, God, in His great mercy, raised us up with Christ and made us alive.  This did not result from anything we had done.  Rather it was a gift God which gave us through faith, so that none of us have any room to boast.  Our works did not save us.  God saved us by transforming us so that we could do the good works which He had prepared for us.  Paul teaches a vitally important lesson here.  Good works will not make us right with God and therefore do not give us any basis for boasting.  However, if God has saved us we will do good works because He has remade us for that explicit purpose.  By allowing God to raise us up and give us life we become able to approach God with freedom and confidence.  Even when we, or others about whom we care, face suffering and difficulty, we know that Gd is able to more than we can ask or imagine through His grace working within us.  So we should not be afraid to ask anything of God which we believe will bring Him glory.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.