Ephesians 2:1-3 (ESV)
1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—
3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
We are all refugees from the fog and menace of this world. Not from the earth itself, but from the one who delights in opposition to God, the prince of the air. We are reminded here of where we were, creatures following after vain and temporary pleasures, but always unsatisfied.
The Greek word that is translated here as “course” in verse 2 could have been translated as age, a reminder that his time of will be coming to an end.
In the meantime, each breath taken by the one not quickened by the Holy Spirit is tainted by the “prince of the power of the air”. Instead of the breath of life given by God, the foul air of disobedience fills the nostrils of the unsuspecting and uncaring leading to death.
We all are headed somewhere in our walk, or our life. There are two paths. We all follow after someone, either the prince of the air, or the Prince of Peace, the King of Kings. We are not masters of our own fate. We serve one master or the other, one the master of deception and the other the author of redemption. Our fate, our destiny, depends on which we follow. Let us take care who is leading, for it is true we will follow.
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