TUESDAY June 18th
Ephesians 3;16
‘. . . that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being . . .’
I love those few words in this verse, ‘according to the riches of his glory’. Without jumping to far ahead, a few verses later Paul says this ‘Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think’, together these verses help us to understand that we can never out ask God, because a) he has an abundant store of riches in glory and b) whatever we ask, he is super abundantly able to do even more.
Our God is rich in every way! He pours out his love and it will never run out. He pours out his grace and it will never run out. He pours out his mercy and it will never run out. He giveth and giveth and giveth again says the words of the hymn writer.
This is our God, so if we come to ask him to be strengthened with power through his Spirit, we know that his power will never run out, so we can come for more power for each morning that we wake up! More power to equip us, more power to strengthen us, more power to accomplish whatever his will may be for us as we walk through each day. Not one of us needs to be powerless in our Christian Walk because we have an all-powerful God, ready to strengthen us with power by his Spirit according to his riches of glory.
We note also it says in our text, ‘in the inner man’, that is in our spirit / soul, that part of us that has already been quickened or made alive again the day we were saved. (Ephesians 2:4-5)
I wonder how much time in a day do we give to ensuring that we look after the body in comparison to looking after or caring for our soul? Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4:16 ‘So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.’ We can put all our effort in making sure we look good physically, but we cannot stop the inevitable, age comes, death will arrive, what is important is that we put every effort into ensuring that the inner man is being renewed day by day.
Do you need to be strengthen, we all need to be strengthened, then spend some time today at the source of the abundant supply, the throne where the riches of God’s grace can be found.
Philippians 4:13 ‘I can do all things through him who strengthens me.’