Long Sentences

        It seems at times that I cannot please anyone in my actions even as to how I write.  Some say I use to many commas and others say that my sentences are too short and that perhaps the run on sentence is now acceptable whereas in the past, in my experiences, it was unacceptable.  One professor of English criticized my writing saying that I used the passive voice too often.  At that point in my life, I didn't know what the passive voice was.  Words are wonderful as they are the means by which we can communicate with each other and regardless of how many of them are in a sentence or not in a sentence is not what is important, but the what the sentence says.  That is how we communicate.  Well, it is one of the ways by which we can communicate.  Our body language also conveys some indication of what we are saying.  Ephesians 1:3-4 says, "  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:  According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:"   
       The two verses above are just a part of one of the longest sentences in the Bible.    It can be said that the King James Version  makes this sentence run from verse 3 to verse 14.  I know some teachers who love to have students diagram this one sentence.  While the length of the sentence can be a subject of discussion so can what the sentence says.  The meaning of the combined words makes this sentence a definition of what we have in our spiritual bank accounts.  It talks about our spiritual blessings that are in the heavenly places, or as we sometimes say, in the "heavenlies."  The heading is given as "spiritual blessings."  These eleven verses give us a pretty big and great picture of what we have as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ.  Right at the beginning we notice that God has blessed us.  We know that we have not done anything that would indicate the God should bless us, but He has!   Even when your feet touched the floor this morning, you could have begun a list of all of the blessings that God had already poured out unto you today and each and every day.  The next verse speaks about our being chosen and while we cannot understand all there is to understand about that thought, still God has indeed chosen us.  We can ask why He has done this and there is no reason for us to come up with  an answer, but the fact still remains that God has chosen us.  It would be good for us all to read this long sentence once more.  Well, it would be better for us to read it everyday.  That's how great it is.  Praise God today that His Words are so wonderful.  Sing them over again to me, Wonderful Words of Life.