If anyone does, Paul should know!
“What?”
About “inner strength.
“What’s that?”
Well, let him tell you himself:
That in keeping with His glorious riches, by His Spirit, He may make it possible for you to be strengthened with power in the inner person. Eph. 3:16
“Oh good! You just gave me a new entry for my 3:16 list of verses!”
Glad for that, but did you get what He was saying?
“Well, not exactly.”
Paul had mentioned the afflictions that he suffered for Christ (v. 13). Amazing how he kept going in spite of them!
“Yep.”
Well, have you ever thought what it was that enabled him to keep up serving Christ?”
“Gratitude?”
Certainly that! In 2 Corinthians 4:1 he makes that clear. But how do you think that he could keep from giving up merely out of gratitude?”
“Something to do with that Ephesians verse you just quoted?”
Right on! He needed internal strength (lit., dunamis, which means power or strength). And in v. 20 he says that power “is working in us.”
“How is that?”
We don’t understand all of the particulars, but he says that it is the Spirit that provides it. The Spirit helps him see
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