Eph 3:20-21 NIV: “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
Ephesians 3:20 HCSB: “Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think …”
Eph 3:20 NKJV: “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think …”
How wondrous those phrases, immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine … exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think …above and beyond all that we ask or think.
Why don’t we ask more? Why don’t we think higher? Why don’t we imagine so much greater than we do? Too often we sell God short. We think little—all the while He is urging us to think bigger and greater.
Jesus sent a few men out into the world and told them to change it, and they did. They turned it upside down in one generation. When the last of those men laid down his head in death the world was far different than when he first set out.
Jesus said, “Greater works will you do” and they did them. He said, “Go and make disciples of all nations” and they did of all the nations in the civilized world of their day. He said, “Pick up your cross” and they carried it until their time was done.
Can we be like they were? Can we think immeasurably more, exceedingly abundantly above, above and beyond? I wonder what it will take. Perhaps the now church needs a new vision of the Resurrected Christ.
