God’s love in us demands a response from us. Our response is 1 of 2 things, either we show this love to others or we hide it away not to be seen and known as a follower of Christ. That is who we as believers are. When we look at the Christian life from a distance is really is pretty cut and dried. It is when we begin to apply it to every corner, niche and crevice in our life that we struggle. Do I want my friends to know, what about that homeless man I see? My neighbor sure bothers me do I tell them or how do I share with my family? Each situation demands a response of God’s love from us and it is only through the power of Christ that we are able to do so. When we think we can go it alone and be “Christ” without having Christ then we fail. Paul so desperately wanted each of “his” churches to be alive in Christ you can hear it in the urgency of his letters. It is the same for us today, as we grow in maturity in our faith, we desperately want to see Christ in ourselves and also in everyone who call themselves Christian. Together let us encourage one another.
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:14-21
Singing His Praises!
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