We're all in if we want to be!

More from Ephesians today. In chapter 2, Paul encourages the Ephesians by telling them that they are all part of God's family, joined through the blood of Christ into the promise that was given to the people of Israel. This includes us - We are all one family - God's family.

Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow-citizens with God's people and members of God's household - Verse 19

This is good news. Let's face it, in the Old Testament the gentiles were pretty much out of the plan, but after the cross - we're in!
We can be part of God's family and part of His plan and all we have to do is choose to be. God never pushes Himself on us, he chooses us, but we have to choose Him too. We have free will, and so have the choice as to whether we choose Him and therefore choose in or out. God's love for us is so much that He gives us the choice, and we can sum it up in one verse:

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.