What do you want for the people you love the most? Imagine that you could grant them anything... what would it be? Paul's got a pretty good solution here -- that they may have encouraged hearts, knit together in love, and that they might be completely assured of the knowledge of God's mystery.
How would it change your life to grasp the hidden treasures of God's wisdom and knowledge in you? If we had complete assurance of God's great love for us, everything would be different, changed, transformed -- we wouldn't deal with such anxieties and worries. We'd go boldly into the world each day, fully confident in God's love for us and God's protective net that is cast around our souls. We wouldn't worry so much about this world, because we'd have our eyes fixed on the city of God. We'd be released from trying to compete, and caught up in trying to serve.
This is Paul's prayer, and may we pray it for ourselves and one another, that we may find assurance in God's mystery. We seek knowledge -- we engage with our brains when we come to faith. We think and ask tough questions, and we believe that there are robust answers to those questions, and those help assure us that what we believe is right and good and true.
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