April 27

Ephesians 3:16-19 enumerates a series of reasons Paul has chosen to “bow my knees” before our heavenly Father. They are valid cause for our doing the same and include, “that He would grant you according to His riches in glory to be strengthened by His spirit in the inner man, so Christ might dwell in your hearts by faith…”

It goes on to say, “…that you may be established in love and able to comprehend…the entirety of the love of Christ which passes all human understanding and thereby be filled with all God desires to give to you.” The Word makes it clear that without bowing the knee, there can be no comprehension of the lavish blessings the Lord longs to give His people.

Until we have surrendered our will to His, we can’t fathom the magnitude of the advantage we gain in forgoing our control over our own lives to His control. Until we have given our heart, our mind, our spirit, our will to the Lord, we can’t begin to comprehend the blessing He will give to us. It has to do with what this passage goes on to say in verse 20.

“He is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or think, according to His power at work within us.” When we empty ourselves of self and enthrone Him as Lord of our life, He endues us with His power that enables us to not only comprehend the reality of His provision for us with our minds but to know HIM in the realm of our day-to-day experience.