Reading: Ephesians 2:11-22
As a young boy and through to my early twenties I sat in kirk every Sunday (or almost every Sunday) and over in the baptistry there was a beautiful little window. The inscription (in the King James or Authorised translation) below the window was Ephesians 2:19.
"Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;"
I remember that window when I don't particularly remember others but I think it was because it was in the baptistry - not for us just a font, where it stood out on its own. The other reason was the verse told me, I belong. You belong. You cannot see the kirk at this moment the way you would normally every Sunday but you belong to that same household of saints - they are the folk you share faith with every Sunday and day by day in our community.
You may be on your own at this moment in time but you belong to that large family of God's people.
As a young boy and through to my early twenties I sat in kirk every Sunday (or almost every Sunday) and over in the baptistry there was a beautiful little window. The inscription (in the King James or Authorised translation) below the window was Ephesians 2:19.
"Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;"
I remember that window when I don't particularly remember others but I think it was because it was in the baptistry - not for us just a font, where it stood out on its own. The other reason was the verse told me, I belong. You belong. You cannot see the kirk at this moment the way you would normally every Sunday but you belong to that same household of saints - they are the folk you share faith with every Sunday and day by day in our community.
You may be on your own at this moment in time but you belong to that large family of God's people.