Ephesians 1:18-19

"By having the eyes of your heart flooded with light, so that you can know and understand the hope to which He has called you, and how rich is His glorious inheritance in the saints (His set-apart ones)" Ephesians 1:18.

Continuing further in Paul's prayer, he reveals the specific purpose of "a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God"... he says, "to flood the eyes of our heart with light!" Such a strange reference, but there is no humanly way to express the difference between the seat of spiritual reasoning and the intellect of the human brain.

We reason in our minds (in the brain)... we add two plus two and reason that it equals four... but something inside our inner-self says, "these numbers just don't add up!" We go to the calculator and punch in the numbers and see with our eyes, the answer is again, four, yet still we have this burning suspicion that something is not right, so we lay it aside for a bit. Later, we discover that one of the four did not belong in the set, or that one of the four is counterfeit... a fake, and thus, we see there are two sources of wisdom at work within us.

The bible refers to the heart as the place where spiritual wisdom... or, lack, there of can be found in man. This is where Paul is praying for us to have "eyes flooded with light", which refers to just being able to see the spiritual reasoning... a sensitivity to The Holy Spirit... and the illumination of God's Word. God is a spirit and so He speaks to us in spirit!

The "light", we know, is "The Truth"... It's all that God says... Not just what we find in His Word, but what is continually being revealed. There will never be anything added to The Word of God (the bible), but the Bible says that there are those things of God that are still hidden.

We must consider, too, that there are teachings He gives us from His Word today, that we will read tomorrow, which reveal a whole different perspective of God's truth, right from the same text. His Word is alive, and so it is not the Bible we worship, but the One Whom is continually revealing Himself to us. He is The Light! And thus, we are to be light... We have come out of the darkness!

"We have renounced disgraceful ways (secret thoughts, feelings, desires and underhandedness, the methods and arts that men hide through shame); we refuse to deal craftily (to practice trickery and cunning) or to adulterate or handle dishonestly the Word of God" 2 Corinthians 4:2.

"For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah)" 2 Corinthians 4:6.

The Bible tells us that the Word of God is the light that enables us to walk in the ways of God. Listen to Psalm 119:99, 100, 105, 130:

"I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on Thy statutes.
I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey Thy precepts.
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light for my path.
The unfolding of Thy words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple."

We will come back to this issue of "the light" later, in Ephesians 5:8-14a, but here in verse 19, Paul begins to tell us something about the light.

19. "And [so that you can know and understand] what is the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us who believe, as demonstrated in the working of His mighty strength."

"The immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His power in and for us"... Yes, I want to know that! Amen? The light... the spiritual wisdom of God does not necessarily make one, a prophet or prophetess... Paul says the importance of this wisdom, is "so that you can know and understand the hope to which "He" (God) has called you."

What is the hope to which God has called you... well, you'll need the eyes of your heart flooded with light, which is God's revelation to tell you. That's what Paul is praying for... that's what God wants and what Jesus prays for with confidence... that's what you and I should pray for, for one another! Amen.

Let's pick up with Ephesians verse 1:20 next time.

I love you.