Messages

This week we come to the end of our “In Christ” series, & Paul gives us one of the most passionate & powerful prayers in the whole New Testament. He begins by finishing the sentence he started back at the beginning of chapter 3: “For this reason…” & the reason is everything we’ve seen in chapters 1 through 3. We have been chosen, made alive, brought near, & built together into a dwelling where God lives. Now Paul prays that what is true of us would become real to us. He asks that we would be strengthened by the Spirit in our inner being, that Christ would be at home in our hearts, that we would be rooted & established in love (not fear), & that we would grasp how wide & long & high & deep the love of Christ really is. Then he can’t help himself & bursts into praise for the God who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine! So our question this week is this: are we settling for a tiny sip of God, or, by the power of the Spirit, are we building our lives on a God whose love is as vast as the ocean?