Daily View Devotion in Ephesians 3

Daily Nugget:
Paul learned what he knew and taught because God revealed it (Ephesians 3:3) to him. The people did not have the means to understand God’s commandments unless they came directly from a God-appointed delivery-man. God's completed Word was not available at that time, so Paul was the man God used to teach them.
“How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,” Ephesians 3:3

As Paul learned and was shown God’s will and way, he shared it with people through his writings. His writings gave people the knowledge God wanted them to have (Ephesians 3:4). Even today, the scriptures that God’s anointed were told to record by Him, not just Paul, are still a media He has chosen to educate and inform people about His teachings.
“Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)” Ephesians 3:4

An unsaved person can read and reread God's words and still not comprehend the meaning or the mind of God until that person is born into the family of God through salvation. Once he is saved, he has a new mind (I Corinthians 2:16) that can know and comprehend God’s Word. After being born-again, many of God’s truths will no longer be a “mystery” (Ephesians 3:4) to him, and God’s message will be clear.
“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.” I Corinthians 2:16

Since I have been saved, I have repeatedly seen that truth proven true. I have seen the reality that the song “Amazing Grace” teaches: “I once was blind, but now I see….” 

Before I was saved, God’s Word was “just an old book that men from a long time ago wrote.” Now I see it as a book with every word of God preserved, so I and others can read it and live by His words. Most that are born-again would claim the same change in their thinking.

I have seen religious “scholars” nervously attempt to explain Scripture passages, and it was clear that they did not understand what they were reading. People with Ph.D.’s have tried to explain the creation of Earth and man. Still, they have never come up with an explanation with which all in the science community can concur. Their answers are often unproven theories. 

Ridiculers of the things of God have attempted to prove the history and the advice from the Bible to be false, only to have their accusations disproved and not believed by most. They do not have the “mind of Christ” to understand the things of God. Its understanding is far above what man’s natural intellect can comprehend. 

However, I have seen the same scriptural principles and questions quickly and easily explained by saved seven-year-olds. The important factor in comprehending God’s Word is that one must be a born-again member of the family of God. Once one is saved, that person has the indwelling Holy Spirit. It is that Spirit that aids one in understanding the Word of God. 

Today’s Thought:
“Open thou mine eyes …” Psalms 19:18

Words to Understand:
Dispensation: how God dealt with His people at a certain time

Today’s Reading:
Ephesians 3

1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
2 If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward:
3 How that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery; (as I wrote afore in few words,
4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ)
5 Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;
6 That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel:
7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
10 To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,
11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
12 In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
13 Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.
14 ¶ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
15 Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
20 Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
21 Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

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