An Enlightened Heart

“𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒢𝑜𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝐿𝑜𝓇𝒹 𝒥𝑒𝓈𝓊𝓈 𝒞𝒽𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐹𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝑔𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓎, 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓌𝒾𝓈𝒹𝑜𝓂 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝓁𝑒𝒹𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝐻𝒾𝓂, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓎𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑒𝓃𝓁𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝑒𝓃𝑒𝒹; 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝒶𝓎 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓅𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝐻𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝒾𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝓁𝑜𝓇𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝐻𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓃𝒽𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓉𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓍𝒸𝑒𝑒𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝐻𝒾𝓈 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝑜𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓊𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒, 𝒶𝒸𝒸𝑜𝓇𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝒻 𝐻𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓎 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇.”– Ephesians 1:17-19

What an amazing prayer!  You can feel Paul’s love and care for the Ephesians dripping off his pen as he writes to them.  That you would know Him more, that you would know the hope of your calling, that you would understand the riches of your inheritance and the exceeding greatness of His power!

Paul wasn’t praying that the Ephesians would have new things, or more things, he was praying that the eyes of their understanding would be opened, 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗮𝗹𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗱!  That by wisdom and revelation they would come to know the Father of glory even more.  

In the Guinness Book of Records, Hetty Green, holds the dubious honour of being the “World’s Greatest Miser”!  In the late 1800’s her stinginess was legendary, she would not turn on the heat or use hot water, seldom washed her clothes, did not wash her hands, and would eat cold oatmeal as it cost too much to heat it up!  Her son had his leg amputated as she tried to have him admitted to a free clinic instead of getting him good medical attention.  Hetty may have been extremely mean, but she wasn’t poor.  When Hetty Green died she left behind an estate valued at more than $100 million dollars.  She had incredible resources available to her but did not use them! 

Paul’s prayer is that “the eyes of your understanding be enlightened”, that we wouldn’t stumble around in the dark but that we would know Him more, that we would understand what we already have!