March 31, 2025 WALKING WORTHY
Ephesians 4:1-3 “I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing humility to one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
As pastor Phillip Miller pointed out, the word ‘worthy’ comes from the ancient market place involving scales. If a customer wanted to buy five pounds of grain, the merchant would put a five pound weight on one side of the scale and then begin to pour in the grain on the other side of the scale until the scales became balanced. When the scales were in balance, the grain was considered ‘worthy’ of the price being paid. In the first three chapters of Ephesians, Paul, in a masterful way reveals the awesome and wonderful works that Christ does in the believer and what it means to be in Christ and for Christ to be in us. All that God does in the life of the believer is done only because Christ was the ultimate sacrifice for our sins; in Christ we have been cleansed and are now a people on which God pours out His grace. In these three chapters we find that God has chosen us, has blessed us with every spiritual blessing, has redeemed and forgiven us, has given us an inheritance, that He is rich in mercy, that He has made us alive and has seated us with Him in heavenly places, we are His workmanship created for good works, we have been brought near to Christ, we are fellow citizens with the saints-just to name a few things that God has done! God has adopted us as His children and is in the process of transforming us into His image; He has and is calling us to be like Him. In light of all that God has done on our behalf, certainly we should walk worthy of our calling. Walking worthy touches every aspect of our lives; our actions, our thought life, our motives, our attitudes, our responses-everything. Being a part of the body of Christ brings with it certain responsibilities. We are called to walk in humility, gentleness, patience and love as we relate to other believers in the body-that is part of walking worthy. God has made us a new people who have been called to His purposes-and that is a high and wonderful calling. Let us not take our calling lightly; let it be paramount to walk according to our calling.
Ephesians 4:15-16 “but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.”
Blessings, Buddy
Ephesians 4:1-3 “I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, showing humility to one another in love, being diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
As pastor Phillip Miller pointed out, the word ‘worthy’ comes from the ancient market place involving scales. If a customer wanted to buy five pounds of grain, the merchant would put a five pound weight on one side of the scale and then begin to pour in the grain on the other side of the scale until the scales became balanced. When the scales were in balance, the grain was considered ‘worthy’ of the price being paid. In the first three chapters of Ephesians, Paul, in a masterful way reveals the awesome and wonderful works that Christ does in the believer and what it means to be in Christ and for Christ to be in us. All that God does in the life of the believer is done only because Christ was the ultimate sacrifice for our sins; in Christ we have been cleansed and are now a people on which God pours out His grace. In these three chapters we find that God has chosen us, has blessed us with every spiritual blessing, has redeemed and forgiven us, has given us an inheritance, that He is rich in mercy, that He has made us alive and has seated us with Him in heavenly places, we are His workmanship created for good works, we have been brought near to Christ, we are fellow citizens with the saints-just to name a few things that God has done! God has adopted us as His children and is in the process of transforming us into His image; He has and is calling us to be like Him. In light of all that God has done on our behalf, certainly we should walk worthy of our calling. Walking worthy touches every aspect of our lives; our actions, our thought life, our motives, our attitudes, our responses-everything. Being a part of the body of Christ brings with it certain responsibilities. We are called to walk in humility, gentleness, patience and love as we relate to other believers in the body-that is part of walking worthy. God has made us a new people who have been called to His purposes-and that is a high and wonderful calling. Let us not take our calling lightly; let it be paramount to walk according to our calling.
Ephesians 4:15-16 “but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ, from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by that which every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.”
Blessings, Buddy
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