Our hope

Melanie - April 12, 2011

This morning I was having my quiet time and decided to read from Ephesians 1. I read through it until I got to this passage:

"I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints and his incomparably great power for us who believe." Ephesians 1:18-19

I thought about Paul praying that the eyes of their hearts may be enlightened that they know the hope that is in Christ and the glorious inheritance and the power we have as believers. I guess it was as easy for them to forget all those things as it is for us to forget about them. Maybe they sometimes got distracted by why their neighbor's chariot had more horses or why their friend's togas were always made out of better material.

Or maybe I've watched too much Ben Hur.

We get caught up in the struggles and frustrations of daily life and forget that our hope isn't in the things this world offers, it's in Christ. It reminds me of something I heard Beth Moore say a while back (this isn't a direct quote, just a general idea) so bear with me. She said that once we belong to Christ, Satan knows he can't have us so all he can do is try to blind our eyes to the blessings and inheritance we have in Jesus so that we walk around like we're in defeat instead of victory.

I know I've been guilty of letting myself be blinded. But today I pray that the eyes of my heart will be enlightened and that I would walk around with the presence and the joy of someone whose hope is in Christ.

I pray that for you, too.

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Comments (1)

Nancy D:

I read this post eariler today but couldn’t get it out of my mind all day. Kept thinking about Paul praying about opening of the eyes of their hearts, and how he probably learned something about that in the first 3 days of his Christian life—as a blind man. Also reminded me of Ann Voskamp’s words from her book about the punctures in our lives being the see-through-to-God-places. Oh, He is really working on me today with all this. Thanks for letting Him use you!

Posted on April 12, 2011 3:54 PM

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