Seated

DEVOTION
EPHESIANS
SEATED
Eph 2:6-10
6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
I simply am not quite sure I have ever actually contemplated the fact that I am seated at the right hand of the Father already. Now I know James and John were asking about this position, but that was a different time and place. Yet here I am, here and now seeing that God has raised me up with Christ and seated me with him in heavenly realms. This is somewhat difficult to comprehend. Surely it is in the spiritual rather than in any other way. But what am I to do with this concept. How am I supposed to respond to this position I occupy? I know it is not actually all about me, but rather about God and in raising me up he is showing his incomparable riches if his grace as he expresses it in his kindness to me in Christ Jesus. I know this for sure, because there simply is no way I could ever qualify for this position in my condition of disobedience. How can I ever? I can’t! I am forever falling short. I am always making some dumb choice, some stupid mistake, some incorrect response to someone, some foolish action which certainly makes me way beyond ever being able to stand or seat anywhere in his presence. But there I am anyway, because of Jesus Christ, because of God’s great love for me. Yet, the hardest idea here for me is the undisputed fact I am seated in heavenly realms with Christ. When I think of being before God all I can imagine is falling prostrate on the ground at his feet, not to be seated there with him. This being seated implies a position of royalty, of family, of honored guest. This is so hard to imagine, but I dare not doubt what he tells me. Because of God, because of his grace, because of his kindness to me in Christ Jesus, I am seated.