He Has Us Where He Wants Us

Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus.

Sometimes, when someone has us "right where they want us," it is not a good thing. I think of a plotting person with an evil glint in her eye, rubbing her hands together. I hear a devilish snicker. I remember being in 1st grade. Were you ever the butt of someone's practical joke? It is a humiliating, horrible feeling.

This verse from Ephesians 2 says that God has us right where God wants us. And it is a GOOD thing! God is not going to humiliate us, but wants to "shower grace and kindness" on us. A God who is "immense in mercy" has "embraced us." Being right where God wants us is a great place to be.

The alternative is to be "mired in that old stagnant life of sin" where you fill "your lungs with polluted unbelief" and "exhale disobedience." Is that where you want to live?

Think about the "grace and kindness" God has showered on your life. How has God brought you out of the "stagnant life" to "right where he wants you?" How has God "embraced you?"

I invite you to share your thoughts to those questions. Post your e-testimony (that's corny...help me think of something better) and tell us how God has you "right where he wants you."