What's Holding You Back?

Ephesians 1:3-6

New King James Version (NKJV)

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴ just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, ⁵ having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, ⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

In the passage above Paul tells the followers of Jesus in Ephesus that they have been adopted and every spiritual blessing is theirs and that it was to Gods pleasure to do so. The Ephesians needed this exhortation and I believe the Church still needs it today. 

We as believers don't often live as we are called because we forget who we are and the work that God has already completed in us, through us and for us.  We are new creations, something the world has never seen before.  It is up to us to live like it.  LIVE LIKE YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD WHO HAS BEEN BLESSED WITH EVERY SPIRITUAL BLESSING AND CHOSEN OF GOD AND ACCEPTED. You need not fear or be dismayed.  God has saved you all to His pleasure and His glory.  Live not because you want God's favor, but because you are His child and have His favor in Christ.