Ephesians 2:1-10

Last night after our first time of prayer we worked our way through the first ten verses of Ephesians chapter. The first 3 verses give us,God's perspective on humanity. We were spiritually dead, following the devil and our own passions and deserving of wrath. From a human perspective we may have been nice or "good" people but God's standard is perfection and only Jesus could meet it. Verse 4 begins God's response to our wretched, hopeless state. His great mercy and love caused Him to bridge the impassable gap between our sinfullness and His holiness through Jesus Christ. Miraculously He raised us with Christ and seated us with Him. Verse 8 and 9 are more familiar to believers. Saved by grace through faith, not by anything we have done, purely His gift. Verse 10 shows our responsibility to respond to what God has done for us through Christ by good works which God has prepared in advance for all believers. Truly glorious!