If we were to personalize the early verses of Ephesians chapter 1, it might read something like this:
God is your Father. You live in Christ. He has already blessed you with all the riches of heaven. He chose you to belong to Christ. His purpose is to make you holy and blameless in His sight. He has an amazing love for you. Because of this love He chose to adopt you as His child. He gave you the faith to make this possible. All this is the work of His glorious grace. Through this grace all that belongs to Christ is yours. You have been redeemed and all your sins have been forgiven because He purchased you for Himself with His blood. Now you belong to Him. He continues to lavish His grace upon you. He has given you wisdom that enables you to understand the wonderful ways in which He has blessed you. He has made His will known to you because you live in Christ. It was always God’s plan that you should belong to Him. He works out everything in your life so that His will and purpose for you is completely fulfilled. Your hope is in Christ so that you can live for His praise and glory. He placed you in Christ when you responded with faith to the gospel of salvation. He has placed His personal seal upon you – the promised gift of the Holy Spirit. His Spirit guarantees your inheritance and keeps you living in the power of His redeeming love. He wants you to love your fellow saints. He imparts to you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation of who He is and what He has done for you, so that you come to know Him better. He fills you with light so that you can know and fulfil His purpose for you and enjoy the riches of your glorious inheritance. He wants you to know His power working in you because you believe in Him, a power so great that it cannot be compared with any other power. The power that raised Jesus from the dead is in you. You live in the One who reigns above every other power. God has placed everything under His feet, the One in whom you live. He wants the fullness of His life to fill your life in every way.
– Colin Urquhart