Ephesians 1:3-14

I am so excited about this year-these four years!-at a Christian university! My first homework assignment for my computer class is to read Ephesians 1:3-14 and list 11 characteristics that we have since we are in Christ.

Ephesians 1:3-14:

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us acceptable in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth-in Him. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased posession, to the praise of His glory.

Obviously there is way to much in that passage for me to go through all of it in one blog post, but I hope that at least one part of it caught your attention.

The part that that struck me the most was the last part:

...having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased posession, to the praise of His glory.

It gives me such comfort to know that now that I have chosen to believe in Christ and I accept that His sacrifice on the cross will now cover my sins, I am "sealed" with the Holy Spirit of promise. God has given us the Holy Spirit to be a comfort and peace to us.

In John 14:26, Jesus states:

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

I love that God has our back. He is constantly looking out for us.