Now to HIM who is able

Lately i have really enjoyed the time that Carl and i have been spending reading the bible together.



I must say that i am glad that we have passed through Corinthians and Galatians all those books felt more like constant rebuking than edification but i realize and understand the churches that Paul was writing to had serious issues. They needed that rebuking in order to learn and move on in their faith. How urgently Paul wanted them to learn, grow, and move forward.



Sometimes I seem to get, what feels like, stuck in a rebuking stage. Where it seems every where i turn my sin is constantly being pointed out and God is saying look at it, repent of it, move away from it and come closer to me. I realize more and more that even though the Grace of Christ is in my life it does not mean that i am free to live how i want and please, even I too need to be rebuked on occassion.



Then this morning we stepped into the book of Ephesians. The verse that stood out to me the most was Ephesians 3:20-21 which says "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen."



I think that often i lose sight of the truth that is found in these verses. I take my perspective of life and i think that it must be right, that only when i can see how the big picture is going to work out than that's when it will. And after the discouraging week i had last week i've been trying to desperately remind myself of the truth found in these verses. "Now to him who is able....to do immesurablle more .... than all we ask.... or imagine.."



As Carl and I are becoming more unified trying to work out our plans for our lives, when he'll go to seminary, when we'll move again, when we'll have a baby, when.... when.... when... these verses make me stop planning our future and they bring me to my knees in prayer because who could possibly write a more grand adventure for our lives than " HIM who is able ."



I have been reminded lately of how i need to take my life and constantly surrender it to "him who is able" because ultimately I long to serve and follow HIM and his ways are not always my ways but He certainly always has a more grand adventure waiting for me.