In Eph. 1:3 we read
Eph 1:3 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,
Three different root words for blessed are use in this one verse. The second is from the foundation of “spoken well of”, God our Father has spoken well of us. What kind of blessing is that? How does that encourage someone who is needing money, help in restoring a marriage, assist in defeating depression or despair?
What the mystic comes to learn is that what God speaks and what exist in the realm of God are very close. They are not the same, often requiring our agreement or maturity to come into being. God has chosen a divine partnership ever since the garden that allowed mankind to either have the wisdom to name all the animals or the folly to turn our backs on God is disobedience.
So if you are like me, you want your blessing. You want to know what God is saying about you, the good things, right! We want to know what a loving God is thinking about fallen and broken humanity that is trying to serve and obey. We want to know the love of God that invades the darkness and critical spirits of this fallen world and speaks a truth and grace that is beyond our existence. We want a word from the Lord. A word of hope, peace, joy, patience and kindness.
The pathway of knowing what God is saying is through Jesus Christ alone. (You will read that in the rest of the Eph. Passage). It is not a matter of just having a gift or insight. In Christ Jesus all things are summed up and all the mystery of God is concealed and revealed. As we truly come to abide in Christ Jesus we come to know the words of the Lord for us. This is not an intellectual reality, but a reality that encompasses our entire being. We become consumed with Christ Jesus within and our outer man is being transformed to be a dwelling place of His delight. In the end, we ourselves are becoming an expression of the Lord, a living word of the Father on the earth.
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