It's has been a while since I blogged.
"Why?" you ask. "Nothing to say?"
No. Quite the contrary. I've got so much to say... so many thoughts and words from scripture, I could spend hours sharing. I do love sharing. I have refrained, because if I allow myself to blog as much as I would like I would get nothing else done.
"Does this have a point?"
Nope. Just a girl expressing her thoughts about her absence lately.
Let's get to the point, shall we.
In my Bible reading I am in Ephesians... chapters 1 through 3 to be exact. I just want to share some of the encouraging and uplifting words I read today.
"...according to the good pleasure of His will."
"To the praise of the glory of His grace..."
"...the mastery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself."
"...the fullness of times..." (I love this statement and the meaning of it. In HIS time.)
"...according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will."
"That we should be to the praise of His glory..."
"...unto the praise of His glory."
"And what is the exceeding greatness of His power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of His mighty power."
"...the fullness of Him that filleth all in all."
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them."
"And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ."
"According to the eternal purpose..."
And finally Ephesians 3:14-21... my Study Bible has the heading "Prayer for inner growth". How I crave this inner growth... like a sunflower reaches for the sun...
"For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,
That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His
Spirit in the inner man;
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen."
I was in awe of these beautiful words and how they stirred my soul and swelled my heart with a desire to see His will accomplished - to see the beauty that He is bringing to pass.
His will.
His pleasure.
His praise.
His glory.
His time.
His grace.
His purpose.
His work.
His greatness.
His power.
His fullness.
His riches.
His love.
His power.
He is all in all.
It's all about Him.
What messes we make when we lose sight of that!
May I be to the praise of His glory!
