THE BLESSEDNESS OF GOD'S FREE ACT OF GRACIOUS ADOPTION (6 OF 44)
Scripture: Ephesians 1:3-6
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The Blessedness of God's Free Act of Gracious Adoption (6 of 44)
Series:The Church at Ephusus: God's Calling, Empowering, and Instruction for the Church
Patrick Edwards
Ephesians 1:3-6
Introduction
Perhaps the best part of being a dad and having a son is getting to bless him, getting to love on him. For example, with our move recently there have been many a project to do around the house and Aiden has eagerly wanted to help me with these things. Laying floors, hanging pictures, building stuff, he's wanted to participate in it all. He likes holding my tools and pretending to use them, and so a few weeks back I got him his own little Black-N-Decker toy tool set. In all honesty I don't know who was more excited: him or me? Now Teresa said I got him the tools just so he'd leave mine alone; I said that's a cynical way of looking at it. For me, it was about the joy I knew he'd have when I gave him that set of his very own tools. I became overjoyed at the thought of his being overjoyed.
Now, of course, with the joy that comes with blessing your children also comes the potential for considerable frustration with your child especially when they act spoiled and entitled. In other words, sometimes I get really annoyed with that little boy when he doesn't realize just how good we are to him and just how blessed he really is. I know he's just about to turn three, but any parent knows what I'm talking about. You give and you give and you give to your child and they just don't seem to understand just how blessed they really are.
Church, as I read Ephesians 1 this morning, I don't think we understand just how blessed we really are! But here's the thing that amazes me most: God, as our heavenly Father, has not only so richly blessed us with every spiritual blessing but God, as our heavenly Father, earnestly and deeply desires for us to know just how richly blessed we are. I mean that's the thing we've got to realize this morning before we start digging in to unde ...
Series:The Church at Ephusus: God's Calling, Empowering, and Instruction for the Church
Patrick Edwards
Ephesians 1:3-6
Introduction
Perhaps the best part of being a dad and having a son is getting to bless him, getting to love on him. For example, with our move recently there have been many a project to do around the house and Aiden has eagerly wanted to help me with these things. Laying floors, hanging pictures, building stuff, he's wanted to participate in it all. He likes holding my tools and pretending to use them, and so a few weeks back I got him his own little Black-N-Decker toy tool set. In all honesty I don't know who was more excited: him or me? Now Teresa said I got him the tools just so he'd leave mine alone; I said that's a cynical way of looking at it. For me, it was about the joy I knew he'd have when I gave him that set of his very own tools. I became overjoyed at the thought of his being overjoyed.
Now, of course, with the joy that comes with blessing your children also comes the potential for considerable frustration with your child especially when they act spoiled and entitled. In other words, sometimes I get really annoyed with that little boy when he doesn't realize just how good we are to him and just how blessed he really is. I know he's just about to turn three, but any parent knows what I'm talking about. You give and you give and you give to your child and they just don't seem to understand just how blessed they really are.
Church, as I read Ephesians 1 this morning, I don't think we understand just how blessed we really are! But here's the thing that amazes me most: God, as our heavenly Father, has not only so richly blessed us with every spiritual blessing but God, as our heavenly Father, earnestly and deeply desires for us to know just how richly blessed we are. I mean that's the thing we've got to realize this morning before we start digging in to unde ...
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