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Sometimes, when you get into fellowshipping with God, you feel
like your heart might just burst with joy. You feel like saying, “I’m
in heaven right now”. You hope for greater capacity, so you can
receive more. You have tasted heaven, and that’s just the down
payment. That’s heaven in the bud. That’s a present foretaste,
of what’s to come. I don’t care how intimate your fellowship with
God is, or how wonderful your times of communion are. You’ve
still, only gotten the earnest.

Grace is not just grace. Grace, is the earnest of glory. It’s the
down payment, of what shall be. And, what a tremendous way to
end this. He says that we’re wealthy, but also hints that it is
nothing compared with the glory coming. If you could see the
depths that are available in union with Him, it would burn you to a
cinder. We’re not ready, and not qualified. He says, “I’ll leave
you on earth for a while, and progressively reveal my Son to you,
according to your capacity. Then one day, I’ll give you a new
capacity. With a resurrection body, full of glory.

Then you’ll receive all of what I’ve begun to pay.” I suggest, this
is how God looks at it from His point of view. He sees every
single Christian, in the Beloved. Every Christian, has been sealed
with a down payment of future blessing. It’s hard to think that
anything, could be more wonderful. But hang on, there’s more
wonder coming!

Studying EPHESIANS to Know God

Chapter 7 Who Are the Blessed? 1:3-14

What a title, “The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

It’s a great thing, to have the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob,
Peter, and Paul. But it’s nothing, compared with having the God