Inner Strength

Ephesians 3:14 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.

As Paul opened this chapter he revealed to his readers and to us the "mystery of the Gospel": how we too could be a part of God's people.  It was a call entrusted to him and the other apostles and passed on to us. This moved him to pray the prayer above - for inner strength that comes not from us, but the Holy Spirit - the strength to believe, to trust, to have faith in God's plan and not our own, which is based upon His endless love and His desire to fill our lives with all He intends.  May His Holy Spirit do that is us today.