Upper Loft Meditation - Ephesians 1

“I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.” - Ephesians 1:18-19

Did you know that you have eyes in your heart?  The Apostle Paul prays that his fellow believers would see with their hearts.  In his day, this meant seeing with one’s whole being, heart, soul, and mind.  The idea here is that the Holy Spirit would turn on the light for you to see more clearly.  When you are in the dark you may see dimly, but when the light is turned on everything clear.

“The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.” - 1 Corinthians 2:14

Apart from the work of the Holy Spirit the eyes of the heart are blind.

“The constant desire of our lives should be that we might ‘grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord’.  The trouble with so many of us is that we have never awakened to this realization.  We seem to think that we have ‘arrived’, that we ‘know’.” [M. Lloyd-Jones]

How often do you have the attitude that there is nothing new for you to learn?  There are three key principles here;

1. There will always be more for us to know and understand
2. Seeing is progressive and what we understand builds on what we have understood.  Spiritual apperception is critical to growth, and
3. It is only when we enter heaven that we will fully understand.

Lord, turn on the lights, so i may see you more clearly.