Ephesians 1-4
I spend most of my days in hopes and worries. I get to class and think about how I can impress my instructor, my peers. I go to the classes I teach and wish for some really important insight to come out of mouth and impact my students minds. I go work and hope that I can fix all the problems that arise, eager to impress my co-workers. Additionally, in all these blogs, I have looked into the scriptures and anticipated that I can find some bit of wisdom to give to you. But when I read the first part of Ephesians, all that desire to be clever and impress you with my critical thinking skills vanished. Simply, I was struck by Chapter 3: 13-21. It has been said over and over again, but it is worth pausing and thinking about the fact that God is great.
This isn’t the first time these verses struck me. About five years ago, I was on a short day hike in Northern California with just me and God. I hiked to the top of hill overlooking Mount Shasta. I just happened to be reading Ephesians and I stumbled upon these verses in chapter 3. I remember looking over the lush valley and jutting mountain and reading about how I “may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and height and length and depth and to know the love of Christ which surpasses all knowledge, that [I] may be filled up with all the fullness of God (Ch.3 v.18-19). As I sit and write this blog, I feel the same way: in awe of God and desiring to be simply engulfed in His greatness.
When I read verses like these, I am able to shed my impetuous aspirations and my unfounded insecurities. For a quiet moment, I think on the greatness of God and everything else just seems to disappear.
Jim
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