1/24/2019 0 Comments The Spirit18 And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that you will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people), 19 and [so that you will begin to know] what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His [active, spiritual] power is in us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength
\t\t\tEphesians 1:18-19 When I read the amplified bible’s version of this verse, my heart skipped a beat. This excerpt put into words my experience from four years ago. That moment when I was “flooded with light by the Holy Spirit” while in my car and my life completely changed immediately came to mind. When God came to me in that moment of absolute abandon to self, I discovered who I was: a much loved child of the most high God. And I mistakenly believed that it would never get any better than that moment in time. My life did a complete 180 and suddenly everything was better, but that wasn’t the end of the story. Life has happened since then and recently I have been asking God for another revelation of His Spirit like the one that super-charged my faith a few years back. In another one His divine coincidences, He had me read this verse in this translation of the bible. It sums it up perfectly. “And [I pray] that the eyes of your heart [the very center and core of your being] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit]” What a prayer! That eyes of our heart be enlightened, that the center of our being understand, that the heart of us perceive the heart of God. God’s love is so incredible and merciful, and yet we as humans doubt it, twist it, and run from it. The most amazing part of that whole night was realizing that the thing I desired most in the world, love and acceptance, was available the whole time. All I had to do was accept it. I read this verse and I was again experiencing a peek into the “glorious inheritance”. I felt myself lighten as I remembered the hope of “confident expectation” to which he has called me. The spark was rekindled and the burn for more began to creep into my being. When I experienced The Spirit up-close and personal (I could smell his heavenly cologne), life changed. The knowledge I had accumulated after years of bible reading and study dropped from my head to my heart and I understood that God really is a God of love not just laws. But that was just the beginning. Like the verse states, “And [so you will begin to know] what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of his [active, spiritual] power is in us who believe.” It was a starting point for me to understand who he really is. Every year since then I have become more enamored with Him, more in awe of Him, and more aware of how lacking I was without Him. I’ve just begun to scratch the surface of His abounding goodness and I am overwhelmed by it. How much more can I learn? How much time do I have left? How can I not pursue His will with all I am after all I’ve learned? So after a considerable hiatus online, I’m back at it. And I am praying “that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you will know and cherish the hope to which he has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power is in us who believe.” Nothing else really matters without the truth of God in our hearts!
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