Power in His Love

¹⁴ For this reason [in Christ Jesus our Lord and through faith in Him we may approach God with freedom and confidence (vs 12)] I kneel before the Father, ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. ¹⁶ I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, ¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸ may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. – Ephesians 3:14-19

This is an awesome prayer by Paul to the Ephesians. 

First, he clarifies that he is able in complete freedom and confidence to approach the Father God because of the Christ Jesus.  We also who have faith that Jesus was the Son of the one true living God and sacrificed his physical life as a substitutionary death for our natural sinfulness of which we are unable to escape, have the freedom and should have the confidence to approach our heavenly Father God. 

Second, he prays for power to strengthen the Ephesians from the “glorious riches” of God’s Spirit to their spirit.  The single purpose of that power is “so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith”.  He expounds upon that request for power to pray that they, “may have power … to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ”.  In this, I think we get a revelation of what the power of God actually is.  The power of God is knowing Who God is – the totality of all of Him.  It is knowing that the only real power is the reality that He exists, that He lives, and He is the embodiment of love.  The only power we can ever obtain is to accept that He is God, that Jesus is the Christ, and to ask for His Spirit to commune with ours forever. 

We should never stop accepting the fullness of the dimensions of God’s love towards us.  This is only done in Jesus.  God’s love is able to complete our every flaw, our every scar, our every wound, and all the “holes” in our hearts.  We should not wake up in the mornings feeling defeated or unable, but completed and stable.  I also pray for myself and everyone who knows Him to continually grasp this same prayer that Paul prays for the Ephesians.  

Personally, I believe this is a key element to overcoming the world through Christ.  We have to live every moment knowing of the completeness of our heart only through Jesus and everyone's need for the same.