Even More

READ: LUKE 5:2-11; EPHESIANS 1:1-23; 3:14-21; 2 PETER 1:3 Once again, I was enjoying one of the several state parks near me. I had been coming here for the past ten years, and I always stopped at the front because the channel was so beautiful, the beach was gorgeous, people were paddle boarding on the lake…what more could you want? I didn’t realize until today, when I took the road deeper in, that the park is so much bigger, so much more than I could have ever imagined. This whole time, the park was just waiting for me to explore more, but I had been satisfied with the limited space I knew. I began to think about how similar this is to our relationship with God. In Christ, we have been given all His riches, all the fullness of His glory in Christ Jesus. In Paul’s letter to God’s faithful people in Ephesus, he begins by reminding them, along with all of us who know Jesus, of the blessings we have as children of God. We are lovingly chosen and adopted by God (Ephesians 1:4-6...