Ephesians 3-14-21 Here in Ephesians is another of Paul's prayers for his churches. These prayers grow out Paul's personal experience in his own relationship with the Lord and a desire that they might know and experience the same richness for themselves. Paul is asking God to strengthen their inner beings so that Christ might live in their hearts by faith. To expect our unprepared hearts to contain Christ is as unrealistic as it is to have someone place a one-ton weight on our backs and walk away with it. Our hearts need to be prepared to hold Him. Certainly, it is our faith that triggers the response from God; but the source of the preparation is the glorious riches of God. It is the power of His Holy Spirit that gets the job done. It is the risen, eternal, omnipotent Christ who dwells in our hearts. The love that we are able to witness in Jesus as He walked on earth; we are only able to see as outsiders. But when He comes to dwell in the place prepared by the Holy Spirit within us, there is a spiritual comprehension and knowing that our human, finite minds cannot begin to get a handle on. The rooting and establishment in love comes as we learn to accept the spiritual dimension as the reality and act upon it, and not what we understand with our minds. Our spirits are stretched to fit what God has placed there. Paul finishes his prayer - "that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.' Our minds are limited by what we are able to understand; but in the spiritual realm there are no such limiting walls. Paul's doxology in verse 20 now makes more sense 'Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…" He, Himself is the mighty power that is at work in the place He has prepared in us. Let's not limit Him by our lack of faith.

Knowing What Surpasses Knowledge