Ephesians 4 : 12-16
In this new year of 2007, how will my life be. Will it be the same as last year? Am I still a babe craving for milk instead of solid food? It's so easy to remain the same person every year and not growing. It's so easy to remain complacent and not be aware of what is happening to my relationship with God. It's so easy to pretend and live a Christian life without examining the depths of the heart-what is actually happening beneath the person that I am in front of people. Is this what God wants me to be? To remain like this forever? How can I go into greater heights with God if I myself am not willing to allow Him to work in me and through me? How can I know God if I don't have the desire to edify and equip myself with His word?
This morning I was pondering on the word 'fullness' or 'full'. Realised that the word 'fullness' appears quite a number of times in the Bible.
John 1:16- And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.
John 15:11- “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that
your joy may be full..."
Ephesians 3:19- to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled
with all the fullness of God...
And then in Ephesians 4:13-....to have the stature of fullness of Christ
Fullness in my life. To have the stature of fullness of Christ. Is my life like this? Or is it just half-full?
After reading Ephesians 4:17, I pondered on the church, my church. It cannot grow if there is no equipping and edifying of the word; and there isn't unity of the faith and knowledge of Christ. I wonder whether all of us really realise this. Are we going to church just for the sake of going? Or being like robots-serving in church without actually realising that we are serving God? Or are we serving but at the same time our relationship with God and people is not made right? Or we are serving but our service is not effective because we are not fully eqipped? Is God happy with me? Is God happy with the church, my church?
