Re:Verse passage – Ephesians 4:11-16 (day seven)
It is not even November and I am already annoyed with all the political adds. You can’t even watch a football game or the news without being inundated with advertisements endorsing a candidate. To make it worse, it seems like both sides are spewing propaganda in a last ditch effort to sway the voters who may be on the fence. Yet, this scripture reminds us that we have been given something so much better than politics can ever deliver:
The unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God… the fullness of Christ.
The Church has been given as a gift to us from Jesus Himself. He has given us a place where those whom He has called and equipped will build one another up (unity) in Him (knowledge), so that we will not be tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men.
This wording of being tossed is the same wording used to describe the stormy Sea of Galilee in Luke 8. Just like that one, Jesus will calm the storms around us. Whether it be a politcal season or bad doctrine, He has given us the tools to keep ourselves grounded so that we will continue to follow Him in the midst of chaos.
