I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand the confident hope he has given to those he called—his holy people who are his rich and glorious inheritance. Eph. 1:18 (NLT)
Heavenly Father, we begin today offering a rousing “Amen!” to this prayer Paul prayed for his friends in Ephesus. Throw open the curtains. Flood our eyes with the light of your beauty, love, and generosity. We don’t want a mere peek, or a 3 candle-light or 25-watt’s worth of gaze. Bowl us over with grandeur of your grace.
Yes, Father, flood our hearts with insight into the hope secured for us by Jesus—a living hope, a hope of glory, an anchor of certainty in a sea-world of chaos. Help us palpably connect with our glorious future—so much so, it transcends and transforms everything we don’t like about life in this world today. By the power of the Holy Spirit, make hope more real to us than our fears, anger, and uncertainty.
And help us to understand and savor what it means to be your inheritance. That’s hard to wrap our hearts around. You love and cherish us that much; and look forward to spending eternity with us, more than we do with you. Father we believe it because you declare it. But we are doxological-dullards, grace-neophytes, Gospel-amnesiacs. Free us from our unbelief. So very Amen we pray, in Jesus’ merciful and mighty name.