Seeing reality rightly makes all the difference. In the first chapter of Ephesians, the apostle Paul describes the staggering reality that would change the way the Ephesian believers would see things forever. We need to see this reality and live in light of it, too. Whether you are currently waiting in a queue to board the train/bus/plane at a terminal/bus-stop, struggling to get comfortable in a hospital bed in Nigeria or abroad, or sweating as you peddle your rickshaw in hardwork/smart-work, this reality governs your life.

Everything — in heaven, on earth, past, present, future — comes into crystal clear focus in Ephesians 1:9–10:

[God is] making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

There’s nothing in the cosmos that is outside of God’s grand plan, and that makes it a thrill *to be alive to him wherever you are* in the world, and whenever you are in history.

....Gloria Furman.....