“Grace and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ”
Here are two blessing prayed upon the believers right from the start, grace and peace.
Grace: unmerited favour towards our pardon and salvation.
Peace: state of beautiful rest and acceptance for believers found only in God through Christ Jesus
These are continually through scripture being wished upon believers, thus indicating it is a continuation of the state of either, thus not a once of, boom, and you are set for life. Thoughts?
“…who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavens…”
For starters, not some, but every spiritual blessing that is in the heavens. Now this sounds exciting all on its own. The blessing has already been done / given, and those blessings are ones from heaven, not earth. So what can it be? The term spiritual blessing is only used in this passage in Ephesians, but for me possibly could means the same as every spiritual gift in heaven, as blessings are not clearly defined. Or I have not yet found it. 1 Corinthians 10:3,4 also talks of spiritual food and drink, without which we will be up for destruction – so refers to our salvation. Those food and drink is Christ, and truly, without Him, we only have destruction. According to 1 Corinthians 12, spiritual gifts are listed as: 1) message of wisdom 2) message of knowledge 3) faith 4) gifts of healing 5) performing miracles 6) prophecy 7) distinguishing spirits 8) different languages. These things our spiritual being harken to once salvation is reached.
“…in Christ…”
These blessings / gifts are all heavenly, if we are not rooted in heaven through Christ, we have none.
“…for He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world…”
Now this is special, since God chose us before we existed and before the world existed, chose us to freely have His gifts from His heaven and be part of it fully.
“…to be blameless in His sight.”
Now see that the calling of us and the beautiful blessings are freely available to us, it does not just happen for us though, we must be blameless before Him. It is important to note the letter was written to people who were already believers, already accepted Christ, and therefore encouraged to remain blameless before God so they can operate in the gifts of heaven that was already made available to them.