Oh man what a powerful story!

I then got to Ephesians chapter 3 and verses 14-21, which I had memorized at one point, mainly for one verse as I learned thus:

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask for or imagine...
Ephesians 3:20-21

This verse had become to me perhaps my "life verse" so to speak - so many times I had asked God to do more than I could ask for or imagine in tough seasons of life. And after each and every season I would come back to this verse to know and praise that God had indeed done so much more than I could have ever predicted or ever conceived would happen...

And now it was this verse God would use again:

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask for or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21

"To him be glory in the church"...

This was it.

It struck me because when I first memorized it, I actually wanted to memorize it wrong.

I actually wanted to take out the words "in the church". The glory should only be in Christ! What does the Church have to do with his saving grace or his all-powerful power? He doesn't need the church!

Or so I thought. Or so I was uncomfortable with thinking.

It is hard to explain the significance of me running into this verse at the very moment when I was realizing all that I had never realized the church could be.

...could be worthy of bearing His glory.

And I wanted to take that out.

I wanted to remove from Scripture what I did not understand.

This struck my heart like a bullet.