Grace and peace to you. Here is the word for today.
📖Ephesians 5:17 Therefore do not be vague and thoughtless and foolish, but understanding and firmly grasping what the will of the Lord is. [AMP]📖
✅ TO WALK CAREFULLY IN THESE EVIL DAYS, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE WILL OF GOD, WHICH INVOLVES HIS ULTIMATE PURPOSE FOR CREATION.
To understand means to grasp with the mind, which implies some effort on your part. The Lord’s will is revealed in His Word and Paul has mentioned it several times in (Ephesians 1:1:5:9&:11)
✅In short, God’s will relates to His eternal purpose to be glorified by summing up all things in Christ. He does this by saving His elect (Jews and Gentiles) and bringing both groups together as one in His dwelling place, the church, which manifests His wisdom to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places (Eph.3:10). You must work to grasp that purpose with your mind so that you can live your life in line with it.
✅YOU MUST ALSO APPLY THE WILL OF GOD TO YOUR LIFE IN ORDER TO WALK CAREFULLY IN THESE EVIL DAYS. In other words, you must live daily in light of God’s purpose to be glorified in Christ through His church as that church grows in holiness to become His pure and spotless bride (Eph.5:27). This entails several things:
↪You must submit to the lordship of Jesus Christ over all your life by pleasing Him through living accordingly, seeking to glorify Him in every thought, attitude, word, and deed.( Eph 5:10)
↪You must be committed to Christ’s church. If God is working out His eternal purpose through the church, then His people must be committed to the church.
↪You must be committed to harmony with other believers in the church and in your home. God’s will involves bringing these two formerly diverse, hostile groups, Jew and Gentile, together as one in the church under Christ’s headship (Eph.2:11-22). Through this means, He displays His glory to the angelic hosts (Eph.3:10). Therefore, we must labor to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace (Eph.4:3). And, we must live in harmony as husbands and wives, because marriage ultimately concerns Christ and the church (Eph.5:32).
↪You must be committed to God’s glory in the world. The will of God through His church includes bringing the gospel to the lost so that they may be saved and incorporated into the church. In that way, His glory is manifested all over the earth, as former rebels are reconciled to God and to one another through the cross.
🛐🛐🛐May the Lord help us to walk carefully in this evil world, and not be foolish, but understand what the will of God is and apply it to how we live each day by the help of the Holy spirit in Jesus Name. AMEN 🙏🙏🙏
By Apostle Gift Sira.
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