Your Daily Devotional – December 8, 2011

As Paul writes of this Revelation he has received into the ‘mystery of Christ’, he mentions being ‘gifted of God’s grace’. This ‘working of HIS power’, is an appropriate explanation of God’s Holy Spirit, and defines Paul’s adamant stand as a servant of the Gospel to the Gentiles, making known a Revelation of God’s Love for a people and to a Generation that had yet to understand who Christ Jesus is. I admit that my desire to know more of God’s Love through HIS Son, Christ Jesus, I continue searching with extreme dilegence to understand the ‘inner workings’ of HIS Spirit and HIS Power.  Knowing that the Apostle Luke was himself a Gentile, and a chosen disciple of Christ, I know that not only did Luke write the Book of Acts, but since he is mentioned in several of Paul’s letters as having accompanied him in his travels, it is quite possible that Luke’s heritage was at the core of this message to the church at Ephesus. The Revelation which Paul writes about concerning the mystery which has been revealed by Holy Spirit as to WHO Christ is and what HIS life, death and resurrection means for those who Believe in HIM is not in question here.  And the very fact that Paul’s letter touches the heart of a matter such as inheritance, I want to know if it was Luke whom Paul carried along with him as a testimony to God’s Will in adopting non-Jewish Believers in HIS Kingdom? If that is the case, then that might explain why so many times that when Paul and Barnabus entered the synagogues in the cities they visited, they were expelled, even beaten till nearly dead, yet they continued in the ‘mighty WORKing Power’ of Holy Spirit, Prophetically proclaiming to each and every Generation the infinite Love which God expresses to HIS Creation, whether Jew or Gentile, bond or free, man or woman. Declaring that the ‘circumcision’ of my heart is by God’s Spirit, is then the ‘cutting away of my flesh’ and the sinful nature which I inherited, is then revealed and because God’s WORD and the mystery of Christ which Paul preaches, is proof that Luke’s adoption into God’s family was a spiritual Law fulfilled through Christ Jesus. As Paul goes on in this letter, he prays that along with the Ephesians, that through Holy Spirit I too gain God’s ‘glorious riches’, the knowledge that Christ dwells within my heart through Faith, and that I be as was Luke a testimony to HIS immeasureable Mercy and Grace, extending far beyond just the eyes and ears of those 1st century Believers. O’Lord, as I read YOUR WORDs where Paul knelt in prayer,  I too kneel in submission to YOUR Spirit of Authority and Power. To know more of YOU and YOUR Will is my willingness to Love YOU more, and be a Bold and Obedient witness of YOUR Revelation of Christ Jesus. YOUR Truth made evident and known by Holy Spirit, with confidence I look only to YOU for my Salvation and HOPE. As my Faith is deepened and strengthened in knowing YOUR Promise, I declare with my lips that YOUR Grace is abundant and sufficient to deliver me as YOU did Barnabus and Paul, and break every link in the chains of bondage and oppression. I pray that YOUR mighty WORKing Power moves upon all whose hearts have been battered and will be deeply comforted by YOUR Love. Hallelujah! YOUR Glory and Honor must be declared! May YOUR WORDs of Life be forever proclaimed in Power, O’Lord! Amen