David Jeremiah Daily Devotional 13 August 2024: Strangers To God

TODAY’S TURNING POINT DEVOTIONAL FOR 13TH AUGUST 2024

Topic: Strangers to God

Scripture: Therefore remember…that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. – Ephesians 2:11-12

Recommended Reading: Ephesians 5:8-10

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After Joshua and the Israelites settled in the Promised Land of Canaan, there were many “aliens” (Gentiles; non-Jews) among them. When Solomon was building the temple in Jerusalem, he took a census of the “aliens” in Israel to recruit them to work on the temple. The total was 153,600 (2 Chronicles 2:17).

Paul, addressing Gentile believers in Ephesus, described what it meant to be an alien from God: not part of “the commonwealth of Israel,” “strangers from the covenants of promise,” without hope and “without God in the world.” In other words, a bleak and hopeless existence. That was the status of Gentiles in the Old Testament, in the New Testament, and still today. “Without Christ,” Paul wrote, we were estranged from God. But with Christ, in whom all the promises of God are fulfilled (2 Corinthians 1:20), we have been “brought near” (Ephesians 2:13).