A Question of Ambition
I love that this verse gives us license to ask big. I think where I can get hung up isn't so much on whether God can, but whether he will, and whether he even should. See, I have come to understand that even my greatest biggest most amazing plan totally pales in comparison to just a single frame of his plan. It's not my plan that I really want to live out if i really am honest with myself. I know that His plan is going to blow mine away. And his power is already at work within me according to his plan. So why does Paul make the point that God is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine? Maybe just to let us finally chill on the ambition and the straining and digging and maneuvering and striving for the next biggest thing we have planned, and instead just rest within this promise that anything I can dream, He has already dreamed better. He has a better plan. He is already at work implementing that plan. So when it is all said and done, this verse to me isn't about ambition at all, but rather surrender. His plan is so much better that anything I could dream up, so I'm choosing to cool my jets on my plan, and put all my effort into making sure I'm right smack-dab in the center of the plan He has dreamed up for me.
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