How are we able (empowered) to live for God?
Eph say, "...that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being..."
We are empowered to live for God "...according to the riches of his glory"
What are "the riches of his glory?" The immense worth/beauty/glory of God expressed within and among the Father, Son, and Spirit. This is the essence of the *life and Love of God itself.
It is this holy passion/love/Spirit of God for his immense worth/glory we partake in and are empowered by i.e we receive the life and the love of God via his Spirit as we in adoration behold his glory, thereby being strengthened/empowered to live for him.
...he may grant you to be strengthened with power
...through his Spirit
...in your inner being
What drives and empowers us to live for God comes from within (our inner being) by and through the love that comes to us from without (from God) through his Spirit (which now dwells within us) because of the work of Christ (done without/outside of us).
The power needed to live for God is both from within and without. The love of God that comes to us (from without) through the Spirit, stirs our heart (within), empowering us to live for him.
As we receive God's love from without, we are empowered from within, to love God with all our heart soul mind and strength and others as our self.
Power and humility
Power and humility
*Joh 17:3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
The word used for "know" here is an intimate knowing; the kind of knowing we experience in and through relationship, not simply an intellectual or informational knowing.
This is initiated by the Father, secured for us by Christ, and revealed to us by the Spirit.
