God let me preach tonight. It was the second in a series on Ephesians called Identity. Is was in and around Ephesians 1:19 one of my favorite verses. Favorite in the sense that it really speaks to me.
God has incomparably great power for us believers. It is the same power that raised Jesus from the dead (:20). It made me think. If God is for us and God never stops working and God has this great power that he exerts on us, then why does it seem that so little is getting done. It is profane to think that God is not keeping up His end of the enterprise called the Kingdom. The only conclusion is that we are not keeping up our end. Have we become stumbling blocks like Peter in Matthew 16? Maybe, but we don't need to dwell on it. We need to dwell on the fact that God used Peter only a matter of months later to preach the gospel in a powerful way. We don't have to be stumbling blocks. We need to have faith in Jesus (Ephesians 1:15). That's the beginning and the end of the discussion. Do we have faith in Jesus? Once that decision is made, God has great power for us who believe. Praise Him.
