Ephesians 5, Walk in Love

 

Ephesians 5, Walk in Love

 

When we offer and sacrifice ourselves to God it is like a sweet aroma to God. Don’t you feel good when your children take your advice and follow it? They don’t always do that, nor do we always do that with God but when they do, and we do, it is a good feeling. If we feel good about others following advice, just imagine how God feels when we follow His advice. On the other hand, Paul lists in his letter what displeases God and states that those who do those things will not have any inheritance in the kingdom of God. He goes even further and tells us not to associate with people that do these things that displease God. At one time, before we became Christian the only way we knew how to live is in our own way. When we learned what it is to be a Christian or Christ-like we no longer lived in darkness but in the light. We knew the difference between God’s way and our way. We learned how-to live-in goodness, righteousness, and truth. We learned what is acceptable to God and what is unacceptable to God. He goes on to explain that we live in an evil world, but we don’t have to be part of it. When we speak to one another the words of God and sing and make melody in our heart there is no room in us for the evil to abide. When we give thanks to God for all that He has done for us and we live in respect for Him, submitting ourselves to Him we bring back that sweet aroma that God loves so much.

Paul ends this chapter by teaching wives to be under submission to their husband and to God and husbands to love their wives as Christ loves us. So the biggest lesson here is no matter what our status in life, as Christians we should walk in Love, mostly to God but also to one another.

 

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