God, our loving heavenly Father, who is perfect in
all of His ways, created for Himself a family.
His desire always was to fill His Royal Household
with His own. He determined to make His family in His own likeness and desired
they would be filled with His own attributes, walking freely in these for
eternity.
A family filled with love for Him and each other,
knowing boundless joy, with a deep inner peace because they know to whom they
belong. Those who are patient in the waiting. Who are exceptionally kind, full
of goodness and unswerving in faithfulness. A family overflowing with gentleness and
self-control.
To such as these He gives His entire kingdom! His
desire is to share everything with us and reveal all His hidden mysteries.
Mysteries hidden not from us, but for us from time immemorial.
His longing has always been to shower us in His
love, this God who cannot hate, who loves us with an everlasting love. Who has
made unfathomable provision for us and who holds all things in His hand.
His desire for us is greater than our desire for
Him! His desire is not only that we would come to Him, but that we would walk
with Him and come to know Him in deeper and deeper ways.
This God who has from the beginning been all about
love.
His story is the ultimate love story, there is no
other! He has longed for us to turn our hearts towards Him. He has longed for
us to see what He has planned for us. As we make that choice to say yes to Him
and turn our hearts towards Him, we step into eternity. We become true royalty
as part of the Royal Household of our God and King. We become a royal
priesthood, a holy nation.
We are transformed and we go from glory to glory.
He wants all to turn towards Him, but sadly they
won’t. But those of us who have and who
will, step into the love story of all eternity and are caught up in the
everlasting mystery with our beautiful heavenly Father forever….
For this reason [grasping the
greatness of this plan by which Jews and Gentiles are joined together in
Christ] I bow my knees [in reverence] before the Father [of our Lord Jesus
Christ], from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name
[God—the first and ultimate Father]. May He grant you out of the riches of His
glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His
Spirit in your inner self, [indwelling your innermost being and personality],
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith.
And may you, having been [deeply]
rooted and [securely] grounded in love, be fully capable of comprehending with
all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His
love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; and [that you may come]
to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far
surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up
[throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the
richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded
with God Himself].
Now to Him who is able to [carry
out His purpose and] do super-abundantly more than all that we dare ask or think
[infinitely beyond our greatest prayers, hopes, or dreams], according to His
power that is at work within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in
Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3
In His love Michèle
