Our response

The apostle Paul is in jail ...

This is why I, Paul, and in jail for Christ, having taken up the cause of you outsiders, so-called. I take it that you're familiar with the part I was given in God's plan for including everybody. Ephesians 3:1-2 The Message

The so-called outsiders, the gentiles, are all those who aren't Jewish. Me, and possibly you. Paul was in jail for speaking out about Christ, and here is his response, He is on His knees, praying, asking God to strengthen the outsiders, and exhorting them to live their lives fully in God, and trust that He can do anything.

My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth.

I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit - not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength - that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. 

And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all Christians the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. 

Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God. 

God can do anything, you know - far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! 

He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.
Ephesians 3:14-20 The Message 

Question for today, what is your response to your Heavenly Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit?  We are all at different stages in our walk with God, but let's always be reverent, allow the Spirit to move in our lives and move to a deeper level of knowing, loving and trusting God, so we too can do our part in God's plan.