At the beginning of ch.3 Paul was going to pray, but he digressed into the wonder and mystery of the plan, economy and mystery of God's call on His life.
Then he got to the prayer... He had a problem: God's love for us is huge and we struggle to grasp it. So he prayed that the Ephesians would get the help they needed to understand the enormity of God's love for them.
This leads inexorably to the a doxology: an outburst of unbridled praise and adoration. Go an read it again!
He is indisputably God!
Paul is deliberately overloading the superlatives:
He could have said "God is able to do more than we can ask."
But he says "God is able to do IMMEASURABLY MORE than ALL we can ask OR IMAGINE!"
And this power is not far away and distant - He is with us and working in us and in the church!
And He is the God of Eternity (all generations!) and His glory is revealed in all that Jesus has done for us Incarnation, Crucifixion, Resurrection and Ascension. So ALL the glory goes to Him!
All good theology and preaching leads us to this point:
SOLI DEO GLORIA - To God alone be the praise!
Amen!
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Theo Groeneveld theo@emmanuel.org.za
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