From Death to Life, God Gave Us Life in Christ

In Ephesians 2:1, Paul writes that we were dead in trespasses and sins. This is a serious word, because it speaks of a life separated from God within.

We can breathe, work, make plans, and still carry a heart far from the Lord. Spiritual death does not always show on the outside, but it reveals a life without fellowship with God.

In Ephesians 2:4-5, Scripture continues, “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ.”

Salvation begins with God’s mercy. He reaches us when we do not have the strength to return on our own. Christ does not touch only the visible part of life. He gives life to the heart that was far from the Father.

This truth calls us to humility. None of us came near to God by personal merit. We were reached by love, received by grace, and called into a new life in Christ.

Every day, we need to remember where God brought us from. Those who have received life in Christ do not have to remain bound to what once ruled the heart.

1 ¶ And you [hath he quickened], who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4 ¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

6 And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus:

7 That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in [his] kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.