MY DAILY COVENANT WITH GOD DEVOTIONAL
Devotion for Tuesday August 4,
2020
Topic: Pull Down Walls
Text: Ephesians 2:14 – 22
Jesus
Christ made peace between God and us by the sacrifice of Himself on the Cross
of Calvary. In every sense, Christ is our Peace, the author, centre, and
substance of our being at peace with God and of our union with the Jewish
believers in one church.
In
the process of dying for us, Christ has destroyed the barriers people build
between themselves. Because these walls have been removed, we can have real
unity with people who are not like us. This is true reconciliation.
Because
of Christ’s death for our sins, we are all one (Ephesians 2:14); our hostility
against each other has been put to death (Ephesians 2:16); we can all have
access to the Father by the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 2:18); we are no longer
strangers or foreigners to God (Ephesians 2:19); and we are all being built
into a holy temple with Christ as our Chief Cornerstone (Ephesians 2:20, 21). What
a privilege and honour!
The
middle wall of separation alludes to the wall in the Jewish temple that
separated the court of the Gentiles from the holy place occupied by the Jews. A
Gentile who was caught going beyond this wall was killed (see Acts 21:28, 29).
Today
most of us Christians are still building walls that Christ pulled down through
segregation, despising others, feeling superior because we have one gift or
another, etc. Can you mention some other ways we still build walls? Instead of
building bridges to link one another, we are building wall and barriers. We
should be like Christ in reconciling people to God (2 Corinthians 5:18) instead
of sending them away with our quirk character and perceived spiritual birth.
Food for Thought: In what ways are you building walls against fellow Christians and
unbelievers?
Memory verse: Ephesians 2:14
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