August 25, 2010
Ephesians 1
Pastor Farrell Lemings
If we do not know who we are as Christ-followers, we will live far below the blessing and destiny that God has for us. In other words, we will settle for less when God wants us to experience more.
It would be like being an heir to a massive estate, yet not knowing that you had a right to claim a portion of the estate as your own. If you did not know that you were a member of the family and had rights to millions of dollars, you would miss out on what was rightfully yours. What you could have claimed, experienced and enjoyed was missed…simply because you did no know.
I think the same thing is happening in the church and our lives. Because we do not fully know and understand who we are, we are settling for less, when God wants to give us more. We are settling for less when God wants to do greater things in our lives and has given us a great inheritance. Ephesians 1:3 says that God “has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.”
We must know who we are and what God has made available for us.
If we don’t, there is the possibility that we will live like Hetty Green. Mrs. Green has gone down in history as America’s Greatest Miser. When she died in 1916, she left an estate valued at over $100 million. Yet she ate cold oatmeal because it cost to heat it. Her son had to suffer a leg amputation, because she delayed so long in looking for a free clinic that his case became incurable. She was wealthy, but chose to live as a pauper. Eccentric? Certainly! Yet too many Christian believers live the same way. We have limitless wealth at our disposal, and yet we often live like paupers.
Pastor Farrell is a native of Crabtree, Arkansas and in his 15th year as Grace Covenant’s Lead Pastor.
