Monday Morning Mail, 20th April 2015
Every year, I try to give us some thoughts about what God is calling us to do and who he is calling us to be. This year, I kept on being drawn back to Paul's incredible prayer in Ephesians 1:15-23. Paul has just spent the first 14 verses telling the Ephesians how blessed they (and we) are in Jesus. We have every spiritual blessing in Christ v3, God has chosen us to be adopted as his children v5. We have redemption through Jesus' blood v7. We've been let into the secret of how this story ends, so that we know how to live now v9. If we trust in Jesus we have been given God's Holy Spirit to live in us and seal and protect us for our future inheritance v13. So it's right that Paul spends v15-16 praising God for that. And yet there's something missing. The Ephesians have everything, but Paul prays for more. They are like millionaires who don't realise that they have the money, and live like paupers. They have God's Spirit living in