Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Insanely Great Greatness

In the runaway cult classic movie film "Jonah, a Veggie Tales Movie," in the DVD version, in the audio commentary done by Larry and Mr. Lunt, in a certain part, Mr. Lunt says, "This burrito is insanely great." Fast forward to 4th semester Greek class. I was translating Ephesians 1:19 and came across this phrase in the Greek: "to huperballon megethos tes dunameos autou." I translate this phrase as "the insanely great greatness of his power." What sort of insanely great power is this? In the next verse Paul declares that God makes available to us this insanely great power. How insanely great is this insanely great power? It is the very same power that God utilized to raise Christ from the dead!

Now you may be asking to yourself, "What?(!)" But you heard me right. The very same insanely great greatness of his power that God used to raise Christ from the dead God makes available to us!

In the immortal words of one Homestar Runner, "That, is literally, so great." But in this case, it really is so great.