Re:Verse passage – Ephesians 2:8-10 (day six).
Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins. Ephesians 2:1 (NLT)
Once is a pregnant word, full of history yet firmly in the present. It is a whole story wrapped up in one word. In the case of Ephesians 2:1-10, it is the beginning of the greatest story ever told.
The story of Ephesians 2:1-10 is the greatest story ever told because of its divine intervention. The ending is so improbable that you would never have guessed it if you didn’t already know it. The distance between ‘once’ and the end is so vast that only an act of God could have connected the two.
Once is the start of our story, too. The only reason we have a “once” in our story is because God gave us a new present with a future promise in Christ. Does that not put a smile on your face?
Be thankful for divine interventions that completely and impossibly change our trajectory!
Well said! I remember once, so thankful for the present!
Mike
So well written and insightful. Such a beautiful word picture.
Thank you Danny!