Setting the Bar High

 

~~~ Ephesians 4: 1-6 ~~~ Psalm 24 ~~~ Luke 12: 54-59 ~~~

 

Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.

 

Paul's advice to the Ephesians lays out the virtues of a believer

who longs to see the face of God.

He says we must live in a manner that is worthy of our call.

You probably have heard the saying...

'God didn't make no junk'.

 

If we managed to live in humility, gentleness, and patience;

it would be easy to love everyone.

 

God inspired Paul to set the bar high with his expectations

for how we should live.

If there are high expectations we just might be more prone

to continue to try to reach them.

God never promised he would make it easy to follow him.

 

Sometimes it is through our continued efforts to meet his expectations

that we come to a deeper understanding of who God is.

 

It takes a lifetime of aspiring to be a better person...

to be a person filled with more love

before we can experience what it means to have his peace.

 

What will be our experience when we see the face of God?

Will it be too glorious for us to behold?

Will we come to understand humility in its purest sense?

Will we be overwhelmed with the greatness of his love?

 

 

If we are striving to live in a manner worthy of our call;

we are striving to see his face someday.

 

"...live in a manner worthy of the call you have received..."

 

There can be nothing more worth living for

than to see the face of God someday.

 

We must live each day confident in what we believe.

So well written by Saint Paul...

"...one Lord, one faith, one baptism;
one God and Father of all,
who is over all and through all and in all."

 

May we be bound together forever in the peace of the Lord

as we are all part of the same Body of Christ.