NOTES for Eph 2:19-22
In today's reading the apostle Paul answers everyone who, out of false modesty, claims that in the Church he is a small and out-of-place person, worthy of nothing, and in general just happened to be passing by. He says: "You are no longer strangers and aliens, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household." Nothing less: fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household! Is it pleasing to Him, then, that we refuse such an honor?
But this can be looked at from another side as well: it is an enormous responsibility to remember that our citizenship is in the Kingdom of Heaven... And refusal of "such an undeserved privilege" in fact means refusal of responsibility. Paul calls us to accept this responsibility with gratitude and humility.