God-Sized Task

This morning I had a stark realization that we’re only 8 days away from our next Core Group Meeting and less than a month away from our first preview service.  I don’t know if words can adequately describe the excitement/anxiety/fear/I can’t believe it’s finally almost here feelings I’ve been experiencing all day.  I’m pumped!  Really.  But I’m also overwhelmed.  This is definitely a God-sized task.  Which is maybe the most encouraging sentence in the whole paragraph above.

I love this prayer of Paul in Ephesians 3.  Paul was realizing who he was (the very least of all saints - vs. 8a), but at the same time the incredible God-sized task God had placed before him (vs. 8b-9).  Paul’s response was to pray.

Ephesians 3:14-21
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.

Don’t you want to be part of something like that?  Where God does something far more abundant than anything we could ever think or imagine!  I believe that’s exactly what He wants to do in Clinton.

So that’s what I’m praying over you today.  That He would strengthen your Spirit.  That you would know His love.  That He would fill you with the fullness of God.  That He would prepare you for the task He is about to accomplish.  It’s humbling to think God is going to use sinners like us to accomplish His work.  I pray that He would be glorified in this church!