knew true power

What’s the most powerful thing you can think of? The firepower required to launch a shuttle out of our atmosphere. A roaring tidal wave. The burning heat of the sun.

How about the power to form the whole universe, place the stars and raise mountains out of the sea? Even that doesn’t quite capture the power at work within our lives.

Writing to encourage Christians from his prison cell, Paul included a prayer in his letter. It was a prayer all about growing in knowledge—but not just textbook knowledge. Paul longed for his fellow believers to grow in their knowledge of God; the hope He gives, the future He promises and the power with which He works in our lives.

Even greater than the power to create a universe from nothing; this is the power to bring life out of death, to bring meaning to the meaningless, to turn dead ends into fresh starts. The power which raised Jesus from the dead and seated Him above every authority and dominion is at work within us today. May we all, as Paul prayed, have a fresh revelation of the inexhaustible hope, the glorious future and the incomparable power of God that is our inheritance as His children.