Ephesians 3:14
14 For this [toutou] cause [charin] I bow [kampto] my [mou] knees [gonu] unto [pros] the Father [pater] of our [hemon] Lord [kurios] Jesus [Iesous] Christ, [Christos]KJV-Interlinear
14 For
this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, NASB
For this cause, is a
restatement from verse one, but takes into account all that has been said
throughout this chapter, and means, because of this, or, because of these
things.
This is a reference to
the fact that salvation belongs to everyone, not just to the Jewish people. That there are phenomenal blessings available
to everyone who advances in their spiritual life. That there is a divine plan, a single plan,
that has been unfolding throughout history.
That even the angels are learning of God and of Gods plan and grace as a
result of our human history. That life
is full of ordeals and problems and pressures and burdens, all of which are
designed to gain your attention, to help teach and train you in grace and
orientation to life and reality. That
God has a unique plan for each individual to bring them from the speck of dust
that we all are, and provide for a means of advancing us to a completion,
meaning and purpose, beyond our imaginations.
Because of these things and
far, far more, Paul and certainly you and I, should be falling on our faces, on
our knees, on our humility, in prayer and in thanks, because God has taken us
from non-existence, to a point that defies imagination and beyond.
All prayer is directed to
the Father, and never to anyone else.
God the Father is the target of all legitimate prayer.
God the Father is the
single highest deity, and since the reference is made of the Lord Jesus Christ,
this points to the divine plan, the single plan, the one and only plan of God.
There are three members
of the Trinity, namely the Father, the Son and the Spirit. All three are co-equal, co-eternal, and
co-infinite. All three members possess
the same identical essence. There is no character
difference between any of them. They are
all identical.
Their designation as
Father, Son and Spirit, is for our benefit and for the execution of their plan,
such that mans arrogance cannot be used as a means of approach to the
Father. Thus the Son took on that title,
in order to condemn and to counter arrogance.
Arrogance seeks to go
straight to the top and make the top an equal.
Satan wanted to be like the most high.
Man in arrogance and religion, seeks equality with God. But God placed the Son in between so as to
counter arrogance and to recognize Gods policy of grace and truth. Arrogance rejects that ‘in between’ person
and recognizes only itself.
So, God has a phenomenal
plan, and we are the beneficiaries of something that was thought up eons ago.
As far as our existence goes, all of humanity was born simultaneously into Gods
plan, just as the angels were born simultaneously in their creation. We have different ages now, only because God
released each one of us into history along the way at different points in
history.
But, Gods plan for each
one of us began when the plan was decreed.
Our physical life began at birth certainly, but at some point in
eternity past, our life began in Gods mind, and that alone is a phenomenal
guarantee of a great future, which none of us can even begin to imagine or
comprehend.
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