…according to the working of his great might that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places (Ephesians 1.19b-20)

We meet with God in Jesus. There is no diverting this path. One cannot approach the Father without meeting with the Son. One cannot please the Father without first recognizing the Son. If we aspire to nearness with the Father and atonement from our sins against Him then there is no other means of access than to draw near to Jesus, the very image of the invisible God, and find our forgiveness in His self-sacrifice on the cross.

And in-here rests another beauty of our Lord Jesus. Jesus is our risen Lord, our Savior raised by the Father and seated with all authority, power and dominion within His hands. Jesus is above all! And yet in His unparalleled supremacy He is still our access-point. Jesus is the Shepherd and the sheep-gate. He is our guide through this life but He also our entryway to life itself.

Led by the Holy Spirit the Apostle Paul aims to express the bounty of what the Father has done in our lives through Jesus the living, seated one. He longed for the Ephesians to see the same miraculous power that the Father exercised in raising Jesus is at work in us. Paul prayed that the Church would come to know three powerful realities for our lives in Jesus: the immense hope of our calling, the incomparable riches of our glorious inheritance and the immeasurable greatness of God's power directed toward us. All of these we find as we drawn near to Jesus, living and seated His eternal throne.

Jesus, thank you that even as you sit enthroned in glory you are thinking of me, interceding and inviting me home. You are stoking the flames of my hope, securing my inheritance and working in my heart.