“I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.  Now to Him who is able to do immeasurable more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us. “   Ephesians 3:16-20 NIV

Consider the light bulb. It’s intricately designed. If you hold it in your hand, its purpose is not fulfilled, there is no light. If you screw it into a lamp, once again, there is no light. But, if you expose the light bulb to electricity by connecting the current to the bulb through the lamp, you have light.

Consider ourselves as the light bulb.  We are intricately designed.  Yet our purpose in unfilled unless His power is enabled in us.  When we through faith allow Christ to dwell in our hearts, His power makes us shine.  Without Him we are just empty shells, just like the light bulb.

When a bulb shines bright, the light cannot be contained to its structure and spills over to the surrounding area. I like to compare that light to His love for us.  It is uncontainable and spills out over our lives. It is not discriminate about where it shines and it surpasses our limited knowledge and completely fills our lives.

He will work through you to do things that you could have never imagined.  Do you think Moses thought, “I think I am going to ask God to part the Red Sea?”. I don’t think so, but God asked Moses to participate by lifting up his rod and stretching out his hand over the sea.  Just in time in a marvelous way, He took action.

Are you asking Him to show up in His strength or are you limiting Him to your ideas?

Written for “Seasons: Overcome” Cornerstone Fellowship, Chandler, AZ