In His Name Devotionals
CHRISTIAN LIVING
In His Name Devotionals
CHRISTIAN LIVING
“(God) chose us...that we should be hold and blameless before Him.” (Ephesians 1:4 NIV)
God chose you in Christ to make you “holy and blameless” in His sight. To be “holy” is to be separated from sin and devoted to righteousness. To be “blameless” is to be pure, without spot or blemish—like Jesus, the Lamb of God (1 Peter 1:19).
Making a positional statement, Paul describes how God views a Christian, “In Him (Christ)” (Ephesians 1:4). If you are a Christian, a child of God, then the Almighty sees you, as “holy and blameless” because Jesus Christ is holy and blameless. His purity is credited to your spiritual bank account. Why? Because God made Christ “who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him” (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Despite your exalted position, as a Christian, in God’s sight, your practices often fall far short of His holy standard. Therefore, the challenge of Christian living is to increasingly match your practice to your position, realizing that sinless perfection will not come until you are fully glorified in Heaven (Romans 8:23).
As a Christian, how do you personally meet that challenge? By prayer? Bible study? Yielding your life to the Spirit’s control? Commit yourself to those priorities today, as you seek to fulfill the great purpose to which you have been Called — the “good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them” (Ephesians 2:10).
