“You were included in Christ.” “You were marked in Him with a seal.” “You who once were far away have been brought near.”
Can it get any better than that? Yes, it can. Just a little further on in Chapter 2 is another wonderful, simple, statement. “In him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.” [2:22]
In 2 Chronicles when Solomon built the Temple, he asked in his prayer of dedication “But will God really dwell on earth with men? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!” [2 Chronicles 6:18]
Solomon could not fathom how the Omnipotent, Almighty, Eternal God would dwell in a building. Even though the building was the grandest building ever built in Israel, it was nothing – a mere whisper in time – in comparison to God.
In Ephesians Paul writes that now God is building a dwelling not out of stone and wood and gold, but out of believers. He will inhabit this human dwelling by His Spirit – and Paul says that “you too are being built together” to become part of this dwelling.
Amazing! That God would choose to include us is amazing. That God would choose to mark us with seal as His own, even more so. And what a promise we have in knowing that we who were far away have been brought near and into fellowship with the One and Only God. But to hear that along with other believers we are being formed into a dwelling place for God, well, that is almost beyond comprehension.
