This Sunday the Revised Common Lectionary makes up for last weeks deletion of the miracle of the loaves and fishes and the miracle of Jesus walking on the water by quoting John 6:1-21.
Let us focus this week on the Epistle in which Paul prays for the church in Ephesus,
Ephesians 3:14-21
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every fatherhood in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with power through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Now to him who by the power at work within us is able to accomplish abundantly far more than all we can ask or imagine, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.
I like to think that St. Paul is saying the same prayer for us here today. Keep that in mind as you re-read the passage.
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