Ephesians 1:18 - 20 “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, (19) And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, (20) Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,”
Oh my, the grace that God has bestowed upon us who believe
in Jesus Christ as our Saviour. There are so many blessings in this passage of
scripture it would be impossible for me to cover them all in this short
article. Beloved, if you have any biblical understanding of Truth, it is a gift
from God. If any of us fail to see everything in our life as a blessing of
God’s grace, we will miss the true blessing here. God said, “The eyes of
your understanding being enlightened….” We all know that our eyes are the instrument
by which we see. If we cannot see, then we will not truly understand. We are
all ignorant of something until we can see and learn, that is called being
enlightened by God. The eyes God is speaking of here are our spiritual eyes
which is our inner spirit. When our spirit was dead then we were blinded, God
said, “In whom the god of
this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not…” 2 Cor. 4:4 This is because lost
people have dead spirits and therefore spiritually, they cannot not see the
truth of the scriptures. The words “being enlightened” means - to shed rays,
that is, to shine or to be made to see-. God quickened our dead spirits “that
ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory
of his inheritance in the saints” . His calling is God calling us from
darkness to light, from a dead state to a living state and once our “understanding
being enlightened” by God we can see the hope that God has given to us. “And
what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe” Just
that fact that we are saved is showing the greatness of God’s power, but we are
also to see the workings of God in our everyday life. “according to the
working of his mighty power,” God, in the salvation of our souls performed
many blessing in our life way beyond our salvation. He also fills our life with
blessings that He has chosen for each of us as He chose them. God does not work
the same in every child, He leads us all in many different directions as He has
chosen. And since He has “enlightened our eye of understanding” we are
also able to see God’s blessings. And we come to understand that all of them
are “according to the working of his mighty power” because we know that
all things are only possible through Jesus Christ and the workings and power of
God. Our “inheritance” are the blessings of God in our life which are
innumerable. The word means - a possession – Strongs, Vines says it means - what the believer will be to God
in that age, - as children of the King of kings being His children. “Which
he wrought in Christ”,
this word “wrought”
means - "to be operative, be at work, put forth power." All these
blessings from God is possible because the Father raised Jesus from the dead. We
owe every blessing to God because of what we have in Jesus Christ. As we saw in
God raising the Son of man from the grave we can see how God works all
blessings for us, in Christ. What wonderful blessings God has bestowed on
us!
