Memorize Ephesians With Me-Colorado Update 2

Hey friends,

This last update includes a short clip from my friend Brad Tillotson, a young man who climbed Mt. Denali in Alaska for his thirtieth birthday. Brad makes some beautiful and insightful comments about the nature of God's call on our lives. For Brad this is expressed in his desire to climb the largest Mountain on our Continent, Mt. Denali in Alaska (Denali is an Athabaskan word which means "the Great One"). Brad says that he wants to climb the mountain because it "provides a window into his soul, I wanted to look at the mirror and see whats there...I want to be free inside".

This is a parallel and picture of why I look to memorizing books of the Bible. The Word becomes a mirror into my soul, that helps me see what is inside. The encouragement that I find, especially as I have looked into the book of Ephesians is that the mirror is reflecting something that I wouldn't have anticipated. It's reflecting back to me what God sees, God sees someone who is loved by God, Chosen before the world was created to be holy and without fault. Someone who God enjoys. Forgiven, showered in God's kindness, grace, wisdom and understanding, identified as His own, full of the Holy Spirit, purchased to be His. All that expressed in the first 14 chapters!

What an amazing mirror. I've heard it said, that "we will never be able to grow beyond the way we are able to see ourselves". How kind of God to show us a glimps of the new creation. Paul later on in this book says that "we are God's masterpiece". So hard to fathom, but that is the invitation, to look at this soul searching mirror, and keep climbing, as "high as we can get" as Brad says, to look up at the face of God and say "I love you".

May you find moments this week when you look into the mirror of God's word and see what God sees. A new creation, a son or daughter with a "good and noble heart".

Keep climbing, I'm right behind you!

Hunter.