How We Are Designed

Ephesians 2:17-22

INTRODUCTION

Our memories enable us to understand life and the reality within which we live. We remember pain, enjoyment, people, information, and events to make appropriate choices for the present and future. Some memories we choose; others are burned into our minds by the sheer force of the event. Memories can be paths to success or scars that disable. Sometimes, we decide to forget painful parts of life, but often, we only succeed in repressing the memory until a later, possibly more difficult, time. We also make choices in remembering how much attention will be given to particular painful or enjoyable events. Remembering is how we name and process the past and structure our minds to know how to live today to prepare us for the future.

In Ephesians 2, Paul asks that we remember the life-determining change Christ has brought to us all. That is, the radical movement from being dead in sins to life in Christ, from being excluded to being included, for this movement is still at work in o…