Feeling alone or lonely? You shouldn’t....
"But God, who is rich in mercy,
because of His great love with which He loved us...
made us alive together with Christ...
and raised us up together,
and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,"
Ephesians 2:4-6
Here in these three remarkable verses, we find three present-tense “together with Christ” statements:
We are alive together with Him
Raised up together
And we sit together
All because of His love beyond reason, and His meticulous sacrifice to redeem us from our sin and ourselves, we are never alone. We are together in Him.
But do we always live like this? Do we live lives hidden in the Lord Jesus? I for one sure didn’t for many years even though I was a church-going believer. We can still love and worship Him, yet live so contrary to His ways by doing...what we want to do.
These three “together” truths get me. I mean, they really sober and excite me at the same time. I don’t want to live for myself any longer or dream selfish, small dreams. This means living life with an eternal perspective that what I do matters, what I speak in His name has authority to unseat hell, and that I am His emissary here on earth until He takes me home.
So, let’s invite King Jesus to teach us what it means to be together with Him in every aspect of our lives and start living out these amazing statements.