Today, I am reading and commenting on  Ephesians 1-3.

Paul writes that we were dead in our sins when we lived to gratify the cravings of our flesh, but that God made us alive by raising us up with Christ.  God has done this by His grace, it did not happen by our effort, or works.  However, when He raised us up, God made us new creations for the purpose of doing good works.  We were not, and are not, saved by doing good works.  We were, and are, saved in order to do good works.  Before, we were of different races, nationalities, and ethnicities, all in conflict with each other.  When God raised us with Christ He joined us together to build a Temple for worshiping Him.  We are no longer Jew or Gentile, Black, Hispanic, Asian, or White.  God has erased those differences and made us all part of His family.

God has given His Spirit to those whom He has saved through His grace in Jesus.  Through that Spirit He gives us great power which we can access by prayer.  Let us allow that Spirit to open the eyes of our heart to God’s power at work within us.  That power which is at work within us is able to immeasurably more than we can ask or even imagine.  I want us to think about what that means.  First, God can do more than we can ask or even imagine.  I don’t know about you, but I can imagine a lot and I know people who can imagine even more.  Yet Paul tells us God can do even more than that.  Which brings us to the second thing.  Not only can God do more than we can imagine, He can do immeasurably more.  Immeasurably is one of those words that takes a little thought to understand.  It is like infinity.  Infinity as a number is so incredibly large that infinity-1 is still immeasurably large.  When something is immeasurably large, that does not just mean that it is too big to measure with available tools, it means that it is too large to be measured at all.  God’s power is like that.

I want to touch on one last thing.  Several times in this passage, Paul talks about praying for the Ephesian believers.  He prays for them to receive God’s Spirit so that they may know God better.  He prays that they have the power to understand the magnitude of Christ’s love and be filled with the fullness of God.  Prayer allows us to apply God’s power, which can do immeasurably more than we can imagine, to the good works for which we have been made new creations.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.