Scripture Reading: Ephesians 3:14-21 

Perhaps one of the biggest problems that you and I struggle with is that we too often  underestimate two things: (1) what God is capable of, and (2) what God wants for us. Some  of us think that God is only concerned with eternity and the life after this current life. This leads  us to treat Christianity as a one-time decision—if you make the decision to trust in Jesus, you  automatically earn a “get out of hell free” card. We often underestimate God and His plans for us because we lack an accurate understanding of the kind of power our Heavenly Father  wants his children to possess in this life.  

Jesus told his disciples that if they prayed with faith the size of a mustard seed  (perhaps the tiniest seed known to the farmers of Jesus’s day), they could move mountains  (Matt. 17:20). Today, when we hear those words, most of us write them off as hyperbolic and  outlandish. We think to ourselves, “Sure Jesus, you might be talking about prayers that move  spiritual mountains, but you can’t really mean literal mountains.” Perhaps that’s true, and  perhaps Jesus never meant that we’d actually move a mountain with our prayers. But here’s  Jesus’s point: if we prayed and a mountain actually moved this very moment, would we  understand how it moved? It moved, not because of our prayer, but because the God of our  prayers moved it! And Jesus, in saying these words, is asking us: do we believe in a weak  god or do we believe in a God that can and will move literal mountains if/when he chooses? In  other words, do we believe in a god that only works in categories that we can understand/ explain, or do we believe in a God “who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask  or think”? (Eph. 3:20) 

What might our prayers sound like if we regularly believed for greater things? How  much healthier and more vibrant might our families, relationships, and church be if our vision  of God and his plans for us was bigger? We need to stop short-changing who God is and  what he’s capable of, and we need to start living and dreaming according to his  incomprehensible power. After all, if we’ve got a God that moves mountains on our side, what  can’t we do?