John Stott on Eph 1

I do not endorse all of Stott’s theology but this is awesome commentary on the book of Ephesians.
“Thus everything we have and are in Christ both comes from God and returns to God. It begins in his will and ends in his glory. For this is where everything begins and ends.
Yet such Christian talk comes into violent collision with the man-centerdness and self-centerdness of the world. Fallen man, imprisoned in his own little ego, has an almost boundless confidence in the power of his own will, and an almost insatiable appetite for the praise of his own glory. But the people of God have at least begun to be turned inside out. The new society has new values and new ideals. For God’s people are God’s possession who live by God’s will and for God’s glory.”