What Does the Lord Want for You?

 January 24, 2024

Wednesday

Ephesians 3:20 (NASB 2020) 20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

I want this scripture to mean more than it does. That may sound funny because it says God can do more than we ask or think. It is essentially saying that He can do more than we think He can.

This scripture is at the end of a prayer for spiritual growth for the Ephesians.  He asks God to strengthen them in the inner man. He asks for a faith based on Christ being in their hearts. He implores God that they be rooted in love and that they could comprehend with all the saints the breadth and length and height and width of the love of Christ. This is a very tall order.

Then comes this verse that says that no matter what we think God can do according to these things, He can do more.

I want this verse to say that God can give me success or riches beyond what I can ask or imagine. In its context, it declares so much more. These things are temporary. They will be gone when I leave this world. God has bigger things in mind.

God works in us to reveal who He is. He knows us. We need to know Him. He is infinite so that we will never know all of who God is. We will not know all of His strength, wisdom or love. Yet, God has plans for us to know Him beyond what we think.

The things we go through, both the good and bad, are meant to grow us into a new faith. It is not a different faith but one that has grown from what it is. Our faith should grow like my granddaughters. They grow and while they are the same they are different each time I see them. God does more within us when we encounter challenges and successes than we could ever hope.

It seems that this world has more of my concern than the next. God has a concern for me in this world but He will not exchange what happens in this world for the next. He sees the day when we are fully present with Him in heaven. He prepares us for that day. That’s more than I can ask or think.