Friday August 14th, 2015 Ephesians 5:15-20
?be filled with the Spirit? (verse 18)
First, a bit of background to the ideas that St. Paul presents in our text, indeed in the whole of the letter to the Ephesians. Paul became an intensely spiritual person after his Damascus road experience. In a letter previous to Ephesians, he writes of having been caught up into the third heaven. Continuing in this vein of thought in Ephesians, arguably the most spiritual of his letters, Paul writes about the mysteries of the Church, translating spirituality into the body of Christ, for which he uses the metaphor of the Temple.
We, as the members of the body of Christ, are to treat this structure as holy ground. We are to walk therein in love, in light, aflame with the Spirit in the joyous expression of the Christian life given to us by our Saviour. Paul is careful to warn us, his readers, against walking this ground in licentiousness and drunkenness as some in Ephesus evidently were. People should see our joy at the salvation we possess. Our faith should be evident.
O Lord, in our walking the Christian walk, help us to walk as on holy ground. Amen. — AEA
Contributed by Holy Ground
First, a bit of background to the ideas that St. Paul presents in our text, indeed in the whole of the letter to the Ephesians. Paul became an intensely spiritual person after his Damascus road experience. In a letter previous to Ephesians, he writes of having been caught up into the third heaven. Continuing in this vein of thought in Ephesians, arguably the most spiritual of his letters, Paul writes about the mysteries of the Church, translating spirituality into the body of Christ, for which he uses the metaphor of the Temple.
We, as the members of the body of Christ, are to treat this structure as holy ground. We are to walk therein in love, in light, aflame with the Spirit in the joyous expression of the Christian life given to us by our Saviour. Paul is careful to warn us, his readers, against walking this ground in licentiousness and drunkenness as some in Ephesus evidently were. People should see our joy at the salvation we possess. Our faith should be evident.
