Ephesians 2:6
And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,
I’m like, “Wha wha…” we are raised up and seated in the heavens with Jesus? present tense? like now? There is some explaining to do. Perhaps just the same way that we receive the Holy Spirit in us and He indwells our physical bodies as exemplified here in John 20 when Jesus appeared to the disciples after the crucifixion.
Jn. 20:22
And with that he breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.”
He, God, in the form of the Holy Spirit of Christ lives inside of us believers in the same way as Jesus abides in the Heavenly realms and is seated at the right hand of the Father we are in Him. In Christ we are spiritually united with Jesus as we occupy a part of His heart. As humans we can only be in one place at a time but is it possible that as we are united with Christ here on earth we are also united with Him in heaven? Perhaps this is possible as we see here in the book of proverbs that as we use our mouths to say what is right it touches the inmost part of God’s heart…
Proverbs 23
15My son, if your heart is wise,
then my heart will be glad indeed;
16my inmost being will rejoice
when your lips speak what is right.
To think that somehow we here on earth can affect the very heart of God in heaven by doing something like speaking the truth is mind boggling except for the possibility that when we are in Christ we are already near to His heart.
application
To be mindful of not only the presence of the Holy Spirit in me but that I am united with Christ in Heaven.
To see my wife Margaret's insight on this very same verse visit here:
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