Daily Devotionals
Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Devotional: August 10th

Ephesians 2:1-10

In a few words, vv. 1-3 depict the tragic position in which we once were. Children of wrath, we walked then according to the world, according to its prince and according to our own guilty lusts. But God came in (v. 4). "His great love" has risen above such a scene of misery. He has quickened those who were dead. He has raised them. Furthermore He has made them sit down in His heaven, the very place where Christ is seated (v. 6; Ephesians 1:20). To be dead in sins or seated in heavenly places: there is no middle position. Which position is yours?

Vv. 8-10 bring out the uselessness of our own works for salvation, and the full value of the work of God: "we are his workmanship". But does the fact that we are seated in the heavenly places relieve us of all activity on this earth? Very much to the contrary! Being saved by grace, we have been created anew (see Ephesians 4:24), tools fashioned for this specific use: good works which the God of kindness (v. 7) has arranged beforehand for our pathway (Psalms 100:3; Psalms 119:73). Not that He needs any work of ours, but He wants our devotion. Finally, never let us fail to ask Him each morning: Lord, show me what Thou hast Thyself prepared for me today, and grant that I may fulfil it with Thy help (Hebrews 13:21).