If you’re one of those people who have ever wondered whether God is still out there intervening in your life, this is the prayer we need to be praying: For this reason I bow my knees before the Father…that you may be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:14, 19b).
Let me back track from the conclusion I just made to where we currently find ourselves or have been finding ourselves frequently and persistently through our journeys for spiritual significance. We would not need to pray this if our lives were fine and dandy and filled with beauty and blessings and happy things.
But our lives don’t reflect that type of butterflies and kisses type of design. They are filled with turmoil and suffering at worst, and at best, our lives are filled with little bits of annoyances that constantly break the camel’s back. So we lose confidence, our boldness is gone and glazed over our eyes is the empty, tired look of defeat and monotony.
Our inner being is sullen and downtrodden and the youthful exuberance that once filled us is strength-less. I mean that is the price we pay for living in this world. We wonder about God existence and if we do believe in God’s existence, we wonder about whether He even cares about what happens to us. Constantly playing in the background of our minds is the Biblical passage that our lives are nothing more than mist passing through the air and this obviously doesn’t help our discomfort nor our afflictions.
However, I tell you that God still searches for you and longs for you even though you do not notice. He is working in you and around you to give us opportunities to grasp at an understanding of His true love for us. God wants us to have “fullness” in our hearts that only He can provide. He wants us to feel the power at work within us. What we need to do is recognize His love pervading through our circumstances and reaching out towards us.
Unless we’re attentive to it and are framed to identify it, we will never catch it. We become attentive to it when we “bow our knees” in humility. Humility is knowing that God is working in us and through us even though we’re messed up and not up to par with the holiness standard God set for us in the beginning. It is not calling ourselves unworthy. It is not fuming at our own mistakes and missteps.
Humility before God (bowing our knees) is an act of accepting God for what He does how He does it in our lives– that is to be open to God’s way of loving us. Once we are open to the way God loves us, we begin to understand how Christ loves us in our fallenness.
When we experience how Christ loves us, we become filled with the “fullness of God” — an all encompassing love that cannot be expressed in any way except by experiencing it with an open mind and heart to the power of it all. If you want to live a fulfilling spiritual life, you have to experience the fullness of God.
In order to experience the fullness of God, you have to open yourself to how God loves you. To open yourself to how God loves you, you must accept that God loves you knowing you better than you know yourself and accepts you for it. Become full of God and see where a full life can take you in your circumstances.