Paul has told us in Ephesians 3 how he has experienced the Grace of God in his life: he had been called by God to be a part of His beautiful masterpiece of Grace, proclaiming how in Christ God is bringing together His people from all sorts of background to be the Church. Rather than worry about him as he sat in prison, he wanted them to realize it gave him the opportunity to write them about this very thing. Verse:
14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Realizing how blessed He was to be able to see his part in God's plan, Paul prayed for the Ephesian believers, and in a sense, for all of us future believers, that we could see the same thing, and that we too would experience His power and love working in and through us, so we all could grasp God's great love He has shown us in Christ, and therefore be filled and controlled by that same love and power, to do whatever it is God calls on us to do in this glorious plan. Today, may we too, get a glimpse of what God is doing, be a willing part in it, and see God's power and love flow through us together.
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