Our Lofty Calling

I took this from professor walt russell. I thought it was quite the amazing. =P
Listen to Paul's description of our calling in Ephesians 1-3: Obviously you won't read all of it, but perhaps skim through to see if anything sticks out.

WE Are....
- Chosen before the foundation of the world (1:4)
- made holy and blameless before God (1:4)
- Predestined to adoption as sons of GOd (1:5)
- Redeemed through Christ's blood (1:7)
- Forgiven of our trespasses (1:7)
- Made knowledgeable of the mystery of God's will (1:9)
- Given an inheritance (1:11)
- Sealed in Christ with the Holy Spirit (1:13)
- Given the Holy Spirit as a pledge of our inheritance (1:14)
- Given riches of glory as an inheritance (1:18)
- Possessing surpassing greatness in His power towards us (1:19)
- Put under the headship of the all powerful Christ in the church (1:20-23)
- Made recipients of God's rich mercy and Great love (2:4)
- Made alive from our deadness in sin (2:5)
- Enlivened, raised up, and seated with Christ in the heavenly places (2:5-6)
- Made future trophies of His rich grace (2:7)
- Saved by grace through faith not works (2:8-9)
- Made God's workmanship, created for good works (2:10)
- Brought near to God by the blood of Christ (2:13)
- Freed from the dividing wall that separated us from God and his people (2:14)
- Freed from teh enmity of the Law abolished in Christ's death (2:15)
- Reconciled with believing Jews and Gentiles into a new body (2:16)
- Given access to God in the Holy Spirit (2:18)
- Made a fellow citizen and household member of God's family (2:19)
- Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets (2:20)
- Being fitted and growing into a holy temple in the Lord (2:21)
- Being built into a dwelling of God in the Spirit (2:22)
- Made fellow heirs and fellow body members with the saints (3:6)
- Made fellow partakers of the promise in Christ (3:6)
- Made proclaimers of the manifold wisdom of God to angelic beings (3:10)
- Given boldness and confident access to God through faith in Christ (3:12)
- Given access to the Holy Spirit's power in our inner man (3:16)
- Given the capacity for our hearts to be Christ's dwelling place (3:17)
- Given the potential to comprehend Christ's unlimited love for us (3:18-19)
- Given the potential to be filled up to the fullness of God (3:20)
- Made partakers of his exceedingly abundant powers (3:21)

Whew! We are quite a blessed people wouldn't you say? Ephesians 1-3 talks of our identity and who we are. Then in Eph 4-6 Paul talks of the life that should flow out of that identity. Identity in Christ, then how to live.... Work out your identity! Think upon it. Then move your life in line with that identity.