Monday, January 25, 2010

Monday's Devo -Called out of Darkness into his Marvelous Light

Read Eph. 3:13-21
Sorry about Friday's post. I got my chapters mixed up. I thought it seemed familiar. Today's reading is another one of my favorite prayers in Ephesians.
Paul is praying for the ones God has given him to shepherd. He prays that God would give us out of the treasury of heaven his strength and miraculous power. And that our roots would be deep in his love so that we would be able to grasp its form, its greatness, its profoundness, and its beyondness (if that is a word). This great love of Christ which passes our human knowledge, will lead us be filled with the finished and complete work of God. God is totally able and ready to do so much more than we can even think to ask because of the undisputed power that he has given to us. If we will let him he will display his powerful works through us, his church.
The word church in the Greek means the ones "called out"; a Christian community of members on earth or saints in heaven or both. So when Jesus prayed, "let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven", that included the church that has gone on ahead of us to heaven and mirrors our meetings. I'm betting they meet and pray for us because they are the cloud of witnesses that surround us. So may we lay aside every burden and sin that hinders our race, and let us run with cheerful hope what is set before us, looking to Jesus the chief and completer of our faith.

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