Today is Tuesday, January 5th, 2021; Karen's Korner #4377

Maybe it is because of the world which we live in, we have to be reminded often Who we are, Whose we are, and what we possess as Christians.


A couple of paragraphs taken from Tony Evans "The Power of the Cross:  Putting it to Work in Your Life":

"Paul says in Ephesians that God doesn't want you to have to go to heaven before you get to taste it on earth. He has laid up for you a 'pledge of your inheritance' (1:14) to access right now. In Greek the word 'pledge' can mean a 'down payment'. Through the cross, God has set aside a 'down payment on heaven for you to receive while on earth. As a believer, you are on your way to heaven. However, God does not want you to have to wait to get there in order to feel and experience what heaven is like. There is a piece of heaven that has been allocated to you right now.

"Are you curious what that down payment is? Or what has already been put in the will for you as a pledge of your inheritance? Paul summed it up at the end of his treatise (writing) on salvation when he said it involved 'the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power' (vs. 18-19).

"Notice that he didn't write that God wanted us to experience His power. Rather, he wrote that God wants us to experience the 'surpassing greatness' of His power. He wants us to know that when it comes to our lives, He is the only true Super Power. No believer should ever settle for being an average individual. God has destined you for greatness through the 'surpassing greatness' of His power."

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