Fully Funded by Jesus Christ
Here's the context. Over the past six months I have struggled to convince a professor at Stanford to fund me, which means that I would do research for them in exchange for having tuition paid in full and earning a stipend to live on as well. My heart has stumbled continually over this issue and it has become an idol that I have worshipped and desired above God many times.
I was meditating over 1 John 2:20, "But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know." and studying the attributes and role of the Holy Spirit, which John refers to as the anointing. That's when God made me realized that I am fully supported and fully funded by Him!
This agrees with what the Bible says about the blessing that God has given us in His salvation. This is especially clear in Ephesians 1:3-14. Check this out!
Paul start by saying that He has indeed blessed us with every spiritual blessing,
I was meditating over 1 John 2:20, "But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you all know." and studying the attributes and role of the Holy Spirit, which John refers to as the anointing. That's when God made me realized that I am fully supported and fully funded by Him!
This agrees with what the Bible says about the blessing that God has given us in His salvation. This is especially clear in Ephesians 1:3-14. Check this out!
Paul start by saying that He has indeed blessed us with every spiritual blessing,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,Election. God made His choice to save me before Genesis 1:1
just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him,God predestined me to become His son.
In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.He has forgiven me of all my sins through the sacrifice of His own Son.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace which He lavished on us.God has revealed His will to me, even what He will do in the end.
In all wisdom and insight He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention which He purposed in Him with a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.He has given me an everlasting inheritance that does not fade away.
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory.God has sealed me with the Holy Spirit.
In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-- having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given a a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory.Lastly, but most importantly, the purpose and reason for all this blessing is the praise of His glory!
to the praise of the glory of His grace... (Ephesians 1:6)
...to the praise of His glory. (Ephesians 1:12)
...to the praise of His glory. (Ephesians 1:14)