Already Seated

“and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,”

Ephesians 2:6 · NKJV

Paul keeps piling up the past tenses: God raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Not will seat you if you finish well. Seated you. Your position beside Christ is described as accomplished fact.

Seated matters. Priests in the old order never sat down on the job, because the work was never done. Christ sat down because His offering was complete, and grace pulled up a chair for you next to Him.

You will spend today in ordinary places, but your address before God is the heavenly places, in Christ. You live from acceptance, not toward it.

You are seated with Christ, which means the work beneath you is finished. Live today from that chair.

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