wisdom // revelation

This morning, I had one of those, “How about that, I don’t know how I’ve missed that” moments.

Over the past couple of months I’ve been studying Ephesians and really trying to immerse myself in the book. In the past, I’ve always been in a race with myself to read as much as possible in the Scripture, but then I realized I was not retaining much or seeing much fruit from that. So my new strategy is read a lot and spend time immersing myself in one book. Ephesians came up first. Not coincidentally, I’m sure, as our college pastor, Lee Cadden, began teaching through the book at the same time I began studying it. You can see his series here.

So, I’ve read this phrase in chapter one, literally, at least a hundred times over the past month to month and half:

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus, the glorious Father, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation so that you may know him better.

As I passed over it this morning, the verse finally clicked into place for me. Immediately I heard the Spirit say to me, “This is the prayer you need to be praying for yourself, for your wife, for your family, for your church, for your city, for the world.”

There is nothing massively spectacular about my moment this morning, or even the verse. It is a simple truth of, “Just pray this so that you may know him better.” We’ll never fully grasp him, but pray this, so that you may know him better. And when you begin to know him better, keep praying it, so that you may know him better.