Exceedingly Abundantly

“...exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think.” Ephesians 3:20

I like to pray from the Bible. Sometimes we do not have the words. Our minds are too cluttered, and our hearts are too occupied with burdens. We have family members, brothers and sisters who are sick, who have cancer, who are recuperating in the hospital, who got into a serious accident, who are depressed, whose loved ones died suddenly. The news about our country and the world can give us heartache as well.

St. Paul’s prayer can be reassuring. In the midst of a decaying, corrupted world, we can say along with Paul, “When I think of the wisdom and scope of God’s plan, I fall to my knees and pray to You Father, the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth. I pray that from Your glorious, unlimited resources, You will give us mighty, inner strength through Your Holy Spirit. I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in our hearts as we trust in You. May our roots go down deep into the soil of Your marvelous love. And may we have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, the breadth and length and height and depth of Your love for us. May we experience Your love that surpasses knowledge so we may be filled with the fullness of life and power that comes from You. 

“To You who are able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to You O Lord, be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” 

Yes Lord, it is not about us.