cease to pray for you,
and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in
all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the
Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing
in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His
glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with
joyfulness."(822)

Again he writes of his desire that the brethren at Ephesus might come to
understand the height of the Christian's privilege. He opens before them,
in the most comprehensive language, the marvelous power and knowledge that
they might possess as sons and daughters of the Most High. It was theirs
"to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man," to be
"rooted and grounded in love," to "comprehend with all saints what is the
breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of
Christ, which passeth knowledge." But the prayer of the apostle reaches
the climax of privilege when he prays that "ye might be filled with all
the fulness of God."(823)

Here are revealed the heights of attainment that we may reach through
faith in the promises of our heavenly Father, when we fulfil His
requirements. Through the merits of Christ, we have access to the throne
of Infinite Power. "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up
for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all
things?"(824) The Father gave His Spirit without measure to His Son, and
we also may partake of its fulness. Jesus says: "If ye then, being evil,
know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your
heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?"(825) "If ye
shall ask anything in My name, I will do it." "Ask, and ye shall receive,
that your joy may be full."(826)

While the Christian's life will be characterized by humility, it should
not be marked with sadness and self-depreciation. It is the privilege of
every one so to live that God will approve and bless him. It is not the
will of our heavenly Father that we should be ever under condemnation and
darkness. There is no evidence of true humility in going with the head
bowed down and the heart filled with thoughts of self. We may go to Jesus
and be cleansed, and stand before the law without shame and remorse.
"There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit."(827)

Through Je