In His great love, the Lord has been rich in mercy towards us. The scriptures below tell us about our condition before Christ and how God’s great mercies changed everything for us and brought life to our mortal bodies.
Let’s give thanks for His indescribable gift of life that we receive by faith. He not only makes us alive in Christ, but He also allows our lives to be fruitful and purposeful!
Let’s show God’s mercy towards others as we spend time with family members and friends during Thanksgiving who do not have a revelation of Christ. The Lord can minister to them through your gentleness and kindness.
As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—9 not by works, so that no one can boast.10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians2:1-10
