Daily Devotional 10-12-2021
Eph 4:17-18 Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their thoughts. (18) They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts. The Ephesian believers who were Gentiles were not to walk as the Gentiles do, or as implied, as they had once walked. Gentiles walked in the futility of their thinking. The word for “futility” suggests being void of useful aim or goal. Unbelieving Gentiles failed to attain the true purpose of the mind, namely, to receive God’s revelation which would guide them in their conduct. Since their minds could not receive God’s revelation, their understanding was darkened, being separated from the life of God. Their alienation is because of their ignorance of God; and this…