9 And this I pray: that your love may abound yet more and more and extend to its fullest development in knowledge and all keen insight [that your love may display itself in greater depth of acquaintance and more comprehensive discernment],
10 So that you may surely learn to sense what is vital, and approve and prize what is excellent and of real value [recognizing the highest and the best, and distinguishing the moral differences], and that you may be untainted and pure and unerring and blameless [so that with hearts sincere and certain and unsullied, you may approach] the day of Christ [not stumbling nor causing others to stumble].
11 May you abound in and be filled with the fruits of righteousness (of right standing with God and right doing) which come through Jesus Christ (the Anointed One), to the honor and praise of God [that His glory may be both manifested and recognized].
All scripture is given through Divine intervention, 2 Timothy 3:16. So this prayer is the will of our Father. It is our Father’s will that we abound in love and to insure that we do, He gave us Jesus to live continually within us, John 17:26. It is our Father’s will that we have full knowledge and insight into love, so He gave us His Holy Spirit to teach us all things, John 14:26. Our Father wills that we be blameless, so He based our righteousness on Jesus, not on us, Philippians 1:11. And finally it is our Father’s will that we do not stumble and that we are constantly producing fruit. So He gave us Jesus to keep us from stumbling and to keep us productive, John 15:1-6 and Jude 24-25.
The prayers in the New Testament are not just wish lists of their writers. They are revelations into what our Father is causing to happen for us and through us.
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