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Ephesians 4 calls us to live in unity and work together as one body, or one team. Unity requires us to be humble, gentle, and patient with each other, and to proactively resolve conflicts. It also requires commitment, as you cannot be part of a team until you join it.

God loves you. As your Father, He desires to give you good things; and as God, all good things are His to give. Since God is all-powerful and loves us completely, we can rest in that truth and trust in His plans for us.

God works in mysterious ways. Through a small nation of chosen people, He provided a Savior and a Gospel that would allow all people to intimately know Him. Though perfect and powerful, God empowers imperfect people to spread that good news to others. And though believers may experience suffering, that suffering can be their greatest opportunity to trust Christ and display His truths to the world.

We all want to belong somewhere and to fit in with the "in crowd". Jesus has broken down the walls that separate us, and has built us an earthly home within the church body - a church which we ourselves are an essential part of.

Until being made alive in Christ, every one of us is considered dead in sin. Though physically alive, those who follow the ways of this world and the desires of their sinful nature are described in Ephesians as being spiritually dead in sin. God's grace alone can bring us out of that death and into true life, allowing us to follow His ways and experience His plans for us.