28th Week OT (Th)
Do you understand who you are in Christ? Paul teaches us: [God] chose us before the foundation of the world and blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing to be holy and without blemish before him. So, before the creation of the world, we were chosen to be returned – holy and w/o blemish – to the Father through Christ. To accomplish this return, the Father blessed us with every spiritual blessing. Before we were created, we were chosen and blessed. Chosen to be sons and daughters of the Most High. Chosen to be His children and heirs to His kingdom. We were blessed, consecrated, set apart to live and thrive in an intimate relationship with Him. Blessed with everything we need to flourish in the world while remaining wholly and only His. It is by the Father's will that we were created, chosen, and blessed. It is His will that we return to Him when our time here is done. It is also His will that we return to Him freely. That you and I return to Him as a Self-Gift. That we make of ourselves a Gift to Him. But we cannot make ourselves a gift to Him w/o Him. So, He became one of us so that we might become like Him. It is through Christ and with Christ that you and I become acceptable gifts, holy and perfect sacrifices offered to the Father. In effect, we were created, chosen, and blessed in Christ to become Christ and to follow him freely to the Cross, to the Tomb, and on to the Wedding Feast in heaven. Do you understand who you are in Christ? You are Christ – an imperfect gift right now – but being made perfect with the freedom won for you on the Cross. So, go home, go to the office, go to the class, to the gym, wherever you go when you leave here this morning and be and speak and act and think and feel like the “being made perfect gift” that you are. You are free to be wholly and only His.
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