“Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow Citizens with God’s people and also members of his household,” Ephesians 2:19 (NIV)
This Verse reminds us of our identity as Christians. God wants us all to recognize the great change that He made in our status and identity when we believed and accepted Jesus as our Savior – the only way to heaven. Our verse speaks of our former status as foreigners and aliens without standing in God's family. But now we are citizens. God sent His Son into this world to make this change possible. God recognized that we, His creatures didn't belong to Him but He wanted us to be His. These are two descriptions of us in the verse. We are citizens together with God people, citizens with eternal rights to heaven. Even more, we belong to God's household, members of His family. What a life affirming promise that is for us today.
This Verse reminds us of our identity as Christians. God wants us all to recognize the great change that He made in our status and identity when we believed and accepted Jesus as our Savior – the only way to heaven. Our verse speaks of our former status as foreigners and aliens without standing in God's family. But now we are citizens. God sent His Son into this world to make this change possible. God recognized that we, His creatures didn't belong to Him but He wanted us to be His. These are two descriptions of us in the verse. We are citizens together with God people, citizens with eternal rights to heaven. Even more, we belong to God's household, members of His family. What a life affirming promise that is for us today.
