Every dad answers one question eventually, whether he means to or not: What do I want most for my kids?
It usually starts with good things. We want them to be successful. We want them to be comfortable. We want them to learn from our mistakes, do what we never got to do, and—more than anything—we want them to be happy. None of that is wrong. Those are good things to want.
But the thing you want most is the thing that quietly shapes how you parent. If what you want most is for your kids to be successful, you can drift into constant pressure about grades, sports, and college—and your kids can grow up believing love is something they earn by performing. If what you want most is to give them everything you never had, you can end up working so hard to provide stuff that you're never actually home. The kids get the nice things and lose the present father.
So the question matters. And in Ephesians 3:14–21, we get to listen in as Paul prays over his own spiritual kids—and we find out what he wants most for the people he loves.
It isn't success. It isn't comfort. It isn't possessions or experiences. What Paul wants most is the one thing we actually ne
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