We are in the catbird seat with God’s Word. We have history on our side and with that history comes knowledge. We are able to read and study the word of God and apply it to our lives.
“16I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might” – Ephesians 1:16-19 (ESV)
Paul is telling the Ephesians of the wonder of God. He is interceding for them with his prayers. He is asking God to provide for them. I think that Paul’s words here are for me as well.
Paul is reminding me of God and what he has for me. We have the chance to learn from Paul just as the Ephesians. I am in a position of needing the reminders of the hope and greatness that God has for each of us.
We have to commit this to memory and store it away in our hearts. God is hope and that hope and his greatness are for us to draw on when we are in need. “Immeasurable” is the word I have to remember. There is no way to contain all that God is for us. I should lean on him in all things, knowing that He is and has thought of all things.
Are we absorbing all of God’s hope and greatness? Will we call on that hope and greatness and lean on God when in need? Do we really know God, His Hope, and His Greatness?
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