May 9, 2016
We thank and praise God for His good gifts day by day, and rightly so. But biblical figures also focused their praise on God Himself—both His deeds and His character. D. A. Carson leads us through Paul’s great passage of praise in Ephesians 1, drawing our attention to the spiritual blessings that are ours in Christ. Because He has chosen and adopted us, redeemed and forgiven us, shown us His great plan for humanity, and claimed us as His own, our lives should be, as Paul wrote, “to the praise of His glory.”
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