Paul was reviewing God’s revelation of his plan to a group of God’s children. Reminded them, that God intends to reveal himself to the world, first, through his chosen nation, Israel, and, second, through the church, that is, people who have chosen to stand with God, and his family.
And it motivates Paul to pray for these people.
He prays that God would apply his unlimited resources, and God’s “dynamite” would plant itself in the heart of his children. Then, Christ would make his home in their core.
God wants to reveal himself to the nations. He will reveal himself through his family. He may reveal himself through the miraculous. But, most of the time, he will reveal himself through the changed lives of his people, and their revolutionary group dynamics, where love and service have first priority.
And he prays that what we cling to most is God’s love. That fact that God’s love stands with us, and for us, should motivate, and enable, us to stand with him, and press on to greater obedience, toward lives that represent him more openly, and vividly, and move into greater alignment with how he designed people to be.
And, not only cling to it, but wade into it up to our chins. To grasp how strong, and how vast, it is. Throughout our lives, and throughout eternity, layer after layer will be removed, and we will see God’s love more fully, and truly. And it is this love, that as we grow in understanding, and we interact with, that touches us deep in our cores, heals us, and completes us.
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