Month of Praising - Day 30

Ephesians  3:14-21

14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,[a] 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

Yesterday's Scripture shows us that God has a plan to transform every believer to the image of His Son Jesus Christ from glory to glory. In today's Scripture, Paul's prayer reveals that that God's plan is not only about each individual, but also about His body - the Church. God wants to be glorified in the Church through all generations forever and ever!
In Jesus Christ, God has already be gloried! But Paul prays that the Church, the body of the Christ, the fullness of God, can also glory God, not only in this generation, in the past generations, but through all generations, forever and ever! Is that also your prayer?

弗3:14-21
14 因此，我在父面前屈膝，15 （天上地上的各（註：或作“全”）家，都是從他得名。）16 求他按著他豐盛的榮耀，藉著他的靈，叫你們心裡的力量剛強起來。17 使基督因你們的信，住在你們心裡，叫你們的愛心有根有基，18 能以和眾聖徒一同明白基督的愛是何等長闊高深！19 並知道這愛是過於人所能測度的，便叫 神一切所充滿的，充滿了你們。20 神能照著運行在我們心裡的大力，充充足足地成就一切，超過我們所求所想的。21 但願他在教會中，並在基督耶穌裡，得著榮耀，直到世世代代，永永遠遠。阿們。

昨天的經文讓我們看見 神盼望在每一個基督徒的身上作榮上加榮改變的工作，但今天的經文讓我們進一步看見 神的心意。 神不僅僅盼望得著單個被改變的生命，祂更是盼望得著一個團體豐滿的見證！保羅的禱告是 神在教會中，並在基督耶穌裡，得著榮耀，直到世世代代，永永遠遠！在基督身上， 神已經得著榮耀；但今天， 神盼望在教會中得著榮耀，不止是我們這一代，也不是過去的世代，而是世世代代，直到永遠永遠！這是否也是你今天的禱告？