Immeasurably More....

Immeasurably more... 

Ephesians 3:20 “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,”

“Ask” or “imagine”.  Ask implies we’ve thought about and voiced a want/need.  Imagine implies dreaming.  Asking will certainly get off my chest an issue or anxiety and I ask so as not to worry.  Oh, but what I really like is the dreaming.  What if?  What if the sky was purple?  What if we got to live in a castle with British accented housekeepers?  What if every home owned a drone?  That was for Maxwell.  What if Korean was a language option in High School?  That was for SunYoung.  What if, every day, houses stayed magically clean and all children used “yes ma’am” and “yes sir”?  Dreamy, take me away goodness.  

Our problem is reality slamming in the now that we can’t allow our finite minds to relax past our hurling need or screaming want.  We don’t take time to dream. We are charged to the task at hand only to be handed another in which to conquer.  And we do.  We are slave masters desperate to cross off our growing checklist, almost frantic in our focus of getting a job done and doing it well. Inhale. What about the more?  Can we go beyond surviving? God’s power offers more than this self assuring numbness of accomplished lists.  He offers dreaming, wildly living in wish land where fairy tales exist and what we think impossible suddenly becomes fantastically real.  I want that. I want God to take my finite, limited mind, add His power and set fire to my existence.  I know I am asking too little, too focused, too task oriented when I pray.  What would happen if I prayed imagination?  

Sometimes my immeasurably more is my arrival to a knock-down-and-drag-out morning only to be presented coffee and accessible bathrooms, like gifts sparkling for the taking.  Not even kidding.  Our immeasurably more is simply beyond our expectations or imaginations.  Some days, this means it’s a good hot cup of coffee offering a reprieve, a mini vacation, from your crappy start to the day.  But sometimes, my immeasurably more is a unicorn dancing across a field of tulips.  Don’t laugh, I know it’s corny, but when we were five, this was not impossible.  This was a reoccurring thought pattern of beauty, gracefulness, sunshine, and pure happy.  How fun would it be to be five again, to create the picture of a unicorn and a painted field of tulips under its hooves?  I know, I know, impossible, yet this is the feeling that surges when the peace of God’s “more” bubbles up from the void that craves God’s world.  Crazy things happen, perspectives change. Impossibilities are brought to tangible happenings and our imaginations are blown away by what is now reality.  

Let’s ask, as He has directed us to.  And, then, let’s do more.  Let’s relax our finite minds and imagine, dreamily, beyond our task driven lives.  Let’s notice God’s more, let’s give Him credit and then let’s imagine again.  Let God’s power set fire to your existence!