Tues.’s Devo - Complete in Christ

Read: Isaiah 39:1-41:16; Ephesians 1:1-23; Psalm 66: 1-20; Proverbs 23:25-28 Not long after God healed Hezekiah and gave him fifteen more years to live, the son of the king of Babylon sent an envoy with a gift to congratulate his healing. Hezekiah should have discerned that something was fishy about this. Jerusalem had been the only city that the Assyrians had not been able to take. Instead of asking God, Hezekiah welcomed them in and showed off all his kingdom. He left nothing hidden from them. When they had gone, Isaiah came to see Hezekiah and asked him about their visit. When he told him all he had shown them, Isaiah told him that because he foolishly showed them everything, everything he owned would be theirs. Even his own sons would be eunuchs in Babylon. Hezekiah knew that whatever Isaiah said would come true, but his relief was that it wouldn’t happen while he was alive. Isaiah has just prophesied that the Assyrians were going to come and take everything and they would be carried away to Babylon and then he prophecies comfort. He was already looking forward to the day that they would return and John the Baptist would come and preach the good news about the Messiah. He spoke into the future when God would have his way on the earth. God will call his church out and then he will redeem Israel and they will once again rise and know their God. They will see his power as he fights for them. The purpose of the letter to the Ephesians was to unveil the mystery of the church - her main mission. The church was to express to the world who God is and what his purpose is. God wants us to understand the incredible greatness of God’s power. God put all things under the authority of Christ and has made him head over all things for the benefit of the church. We are his body and we are made complete by Christ, who fills all things everywhere with himself. Lord, may we be the expression of You on the earth.