My Lord Jesus is powerful! If anything is standing between me and him, he is able to get rid of the obstacle, or help me to do it. He is able to help me with anything! ...Anything!
He cannot be treated like just a friend to vent to. He can't be looked at as simply a comforter or a back-patter, sitting by sympathetically. He rises up on behalf of us if we ask him to. He fights for us in the heavenlies! We don't have to helplessly wonder why our relationship with him is not what it could be. We can just ask him to do what needs to be done to help us enjoy a hindrance-free relationship with him.
He is bigger than the distractions that seem to constantly plague me, and I am asking him to bulldoze them. I have tried and tried to do it myself, and it is painfully tiring and frustrating. It has been like running repeatedly into a locked heavy metal door in an attempt to knock it down. But what joy it gives me to imagine Jesus using his pinkie to effortlessly tear the door off it's hinges, toss it aside, and smile at me, now ready for intimate fellowship.
Please don't skip the scripture! Try to read it like you have never seen it before:
16 I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers,
17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.
Ephesians 1:16-21 ESV (I added some emphasis!)
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