There are days when it seems like nothing goes our way, and when everything we look to do is either stopped or detoured. There are times when we wonder just where God is in life’s equation.
It’s times like these when we should rejoice that the Apostle Paul has just the reality check we need to regain our perspective. First, he prays (Ephesians 3:18, 19), that we “may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that passes knowledge, that you may be filled to the measure of the fullness of God.”
Whatever “the fullness of God” and “the love of Christ” are, they are big, he says, bigger than we can comprehend. Paul imagines us spacially at the center of something above, below, and on either side of us which has no horizon. That’s how big it is.
In other words, we are submerged deeply in a sea of God’s infinite grace. But Paul is just getting started. His prayer turns into a praise, a doxology that describes this God as one “who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.”
So, if you are in Christ, you can never out-think or out-pray or even out-imagine God’s blessings for you, even with ALL your prayers, ALL your thoughts, and ALL your imagination. Wow!
Somebody say, “Amen!”
“And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be the head over everything for the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills everything in every way.”
Ephesians 1:22, 23