The Father: Ephesians 3:14-21

We will probably study the rest of Chapter 3 next week, but we won't be having any Bible study this week because we are having Jubilation this weekend. Hopefully, I will get to see most of you during the revival (hopefully I will be there).

I thought about writing a blog sometime before, but I never had the diligence or time to do it.
Hopefully, this will be the start and I will be able to continually share the Words of God and little that I learned from it. Besides, I won't be cluttering your mailboxes with my opinionated pieces, so you will have a piece of mind with this change.

14For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15from whom his whole family^[a] in heaven and on earth derives its name.

As a Christian, we are of God's lineage. We owe our existence and identity to the Father in heaven.

16I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

Obviously, this passage is specifically meant for Christians. Paul prays that despite difficulties we remain steadfast in our walks with God through the help of the Holy Spirit.

17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

We will not have any room for Christ unless we equip ourselves with faith in God the Father in Christ.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Can we "know" God? Obviously, we as creatures are limited in terms of what we know of God and how much we can know of him. However, when we are firmly rooted in love for God the Father, we come to recognition that it is love that transcends everything that we want to know about God. Pharisees and high priests claimed that they "knew" God, but they knew not because they did not understand God's love for the Gentiles as well as Jews. I wonder how deep, long, and wide our love for Christ is as well as others in our group.

20Now 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, 21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

God will always provide us with more than what we ask of him because of his love for us. How do we respond to that? How do we glorify God the Father? We glorify the Father by showing our heart-felt love for him by being obedient to the words and teachings of the Spirit.

Have a great week.