NOTES for Eph 2:19-22

In today’s reading, the apostle Paul answers everyone who, out of false modesty, claims to be an insignificant outsider in the Church, worthy of nothing and merely passing by. He says, “You are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household.” Nothing more and nothing less—fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household! Does it please Him, then, for us to refuse such an honour? Let us look at it from the other side. It is an enormous responsibility to remember that our citizenship is in the Kingdom of Heaven... And refusing “such an undeserved privilege” in fact also means refusing responsibility. Paul calls us to accept this responsibility with gratitude and humility.