07/07/2026
YOU ARE SEATED- NOT STRIVING
You and I were dead in sin.
Not struggling.
Not underperforming.
Dead.
But God.
Rich in mercy.
Abundant in love.
He didn’t patch you up and send you back out to try harder.
He made you alive.
And not only alive.
He raised you. And seated you with Christ.
Seated.
There’s something in me that still wants to stand up and prove I deserve the place. Work a little harder. Show I’m spiritually serious enough.
But I could never hustle enough to earn that seat.
And thankfully, I don’t have to.
Right now, you are welcomed into Christ's victory.
Not because you feel spiritually confident today.
Not because you finally matured enough.
Because mercy carried you.
You’re no longer under what once ruled you.
You’re not spiritually outside looking up.
You’re with Christ. Already.
One day, that reality will be visible and undeniable.
Today, it’s quietly true.
Not because you climbed high enough.
But because in Jesus’s resurrection life, He carried you.
Gentle Invitation
Where are you still striving to earn what has already been given?
Tomorrow: If you’re seated with Christ, what do you do with the scars you still carry?
“that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.”
Ephesians 1:17-21 NKJV
“But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,”
Ephesians 2:4-6 NKJV