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Him as head over all things to the church which is His body,
the fullness of Him Who fills all in all.”

According to that wonderful prayer, when you received Christ in
your heart, you received everything. Everything except???
Everything, except, eyes to see. That’s the only thing you don’t
have as a Christian. God gives revelation and illumination to the
blind. Remember Jesus said,

“If you were blind you would see. But because you say you
see, your blindness remains.”

Jesus inferred that their blindness was due to confusing physical
and spiritual eyesight. How could they claim to see, when they
called “The Light” (Jesus), standing in front of them, “Darkness”.
Revelation and illumination is given to those who know that they
are spiritually blind. God wants to show us His Son. Every
Christian is equally rich, but not everyone sees it.

I heard a story some time ago. There was a ship called the
“Central America” out in salt water for very many days that
completely ran out of fresh water. They became desperately
thirsty. Without realizing it, the ship drifted into the mouth of the
Amazon River. About to die, they sent out a distress signal which
read, “Help, we are thirsty.” They got a reply back from a ship
who knew exactly where they were. It was a single word, “Drink!”
They were in fresh water, dying of thirst.

What an illustration of God’s people. The message of Ephesians
shouts “Drink! You are rich in Christ! Drink! Enter in!” You’ve
got to see it. Every Christian is in fresh water, yet many are
dying of thirst. They just haven’t learned to let down their pail.
They haven’t learned to sink a well in God. They haven’t learned
to drink from God Himself. It’s such a shame to starve to death,
at a banquet table. Thousands of Christians, full of spiritual riches
in Christ, are living poverty stricken lives.