1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

— Romans 8:1-2

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places

— Ephesians 1:3

4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us,

5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

6 and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus

— Ephesians 2:4-6

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

— 1 Corinthians 12:12

And He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything He might be preeminent.

— Colossians 1:18

Thoughts on Today’s Reading

Grace and mercy from Jesus the Lord to you.

We have a new identity in Christ. We cannot be condemned to judgment in hell because of who we now are in Christ. Our identity is wrapped up in Christ’s identity, so that whatever is true of Him is now true of us. He is our victory. Since spiritually we are settled and secure in the heavenly places in Him, we cannot be lost. There is now no condemnation for those, including us, who are in Christ Jesus. In Christ Jesus we have been raised up with and seated with Him and we are blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus.

Our lives are hidden with Christ in God. Colossians 3:3 says, “For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.” If our lives are hidden with Christ in God, who could sneak into God, find us, and then wrestle us away from Christ? Could Satan? Could we do that to ourselves? The answer is “No one could!” Each one of us the believers is one part of the body of Christ. If we could lose our salvation, Jesus’s body would lose an arm or a leg. That just is not going to happen to our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything. Our salvation is eternally secure.