Sitting in Heaven

  We are special people in Christ.  Because of God's great love for us we were brought to life in Christ even though we were dead in sin.  That's quite a trade.  We traded being dead in sin for being alive in Christ.  God is the only one who can bring us from death to life.  Just as the Father raised Jesus from the dead and set him at his right hand in heaven, He also raised us from death and seated us in the heavenly realms with Jesus (Ephesians 2:4-6).
  Is Paul conflating the present with the future?  We are alive now and will be seated with Christ in heaven.  Or does he say this because, since there is no time with God, we are simultaneously alive in Christ on earth and seated with him in heaven?  If we look back to 1:3, Paul says the Father has "blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ."  We are blessed in the heavenly realms, we are seated in the heavenly realms.

  For Reflection:  If we are currently blessed and seated in the heavenly realms, what does that mean?
  Let us pray.  Our Father, Heavenly Father, we do praise your name.  You are mighty on our behalf, raising us from death to life, from earth to heaven.  You keep us close to you, sitting with you.  We are blessed.  We are blessed.

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