"Esteem Him Highly"

"Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the LORD: we have blessed you out of the house of the LORD." (Psalms 118:26)

 Behind each and every reason for God to be praised, there is something that needs to be esteemed or pointed to for His handiwork. Paul mentions this is Ephesians 2, as he shows how God demonstrated not only His great love for us, but He has been working on getting us to a place where we can live in His presence, free from everything that is not of Him. This was God's plan all along; that we would be able to sit in together in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus. He that cometh in the name of the LORD, is none other than Jesus Christ; the One who came from Heaven once to save it, and will come again to judge it. All that He does, He does in the name of the Father; and yet, the Father has placed all things under His feet. I truly cannot explain precisely the Triune nature of God, but the Bible portrays Him as such: One God in three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, all equal One! Those that take issue with this expression of who God is, they do so because it just does not add up. But, if we have an issue with one thing, what's to say we don't have an issue with another? We either take God at His word or we don't; there really is no room for any doubt, whatsoever. Just because I can't explain it or understand it, does not mean it is not so. I can't explain to you how God created the heavens and the earth from nothing, except to say that He is God, and that God can do anything. But one thing can easily be proven, and that is how Jesus Christ came and died on the cross for you and me. God demonstrated His great love for us by proving how much He loves us. That alone is enough to get my attention! We must bless His name! We must have churches that continue to bless His name! With expectant hearts, we must look at all that He has done, anticipating with blessing, all that He is yet to do. As Matthew Henry puts it: "We must pray for the enlargement and edification of his church, for the ripening of things for his second coming, and then that he who has said, 'Surely I come quickly,' would even so come." Come Lord Jesus, come...

"God's purpose in all of this was to use the church to display his wisdom in its rich variety to all the unseen rulers and authorities in the heavenly places. This was his eternal plan, which he carried out through Christ Jesus our Lord. Because of Christ and our faith in him, we can now come boldly and confidently into God's presence." (Ephesians 3:10-12) NLT