the hope of his calling part 2 Ephesians 1:19-21

  18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might 20 which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come.  Ephesians 1:18-21

  Even though I have split it up here and in the post previous, verses 18-21 should be read as a prayer.  Paul first prays for them to have insight and understanding into the hope and inheritance that they will experience.  He wants their eyes of the heart he calls it to be opened so they will understand.  I believe this should be a prayer for all of us before we read his word that God would give us understanding.  We are not to be walking around in ignorance or in the dark about who we are in Christ.
    In verses 19-21, Paul goes on to talk about God's surpassing greatness of his power.  You notice he just does not say "greatness" but add the word surpassing "hyperballo" which means transcends, surpasses, excel.  It isn't a greatness that is similiar to man's, but it transcends any other greatness.  This should be a great hope to the believer, that no matter what power may be against us, that God's power is much greater.  However great we think it is, we are not coming close to what it truly is.
     Paul says in verse 20-21, this power was demonstrated when God the Father raised up Christ from the dead.  Not only did he raise him up, but he seated him "kathizo" at the right hand of power.  That phrase seated him means more than just gave him a seat.  It means that he confers a kingdom upon him.   This seat was at a place of honor and authority like no other.  That he is not above, but far above all other rule, authority, powers or dominions that exist or will exist and has a greater name than any name ever.   This is true not only today, but will be true for forever.

the hope of His calling Ephesians 1:18

I read these words in the NASV and looked up the transliterated words for this verse in Ephesians 1:18

I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

"may be enlightened" photizo- to give light, to enlighten, to give understanding to
"the hope"- elpis- expectation of good, hope, joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation
"calling" Klesis- a calling, invitation of the divine invitation to embrace the salvation of God
"Riches"- ploutos- riches, wealth, fulness, abundance
"inheritance" kleronomia- an inhertiance, what is given to one as a possession
"I pray that the eyes" - ophthalmos- the eyes of the mind, the faculty of knowing
"will know" oida- to know of anything, get knowledge of, understand and perceive
"glory" can mean judgment, opinion but also brightness, majesty, most exalted state the word is doxa

So, with these definitions in mind I rewrote the verse to say
I pray that yur faculties for knowing truth will be given understanding so that you may understand and perceive what is the confident expectation of your salvation and the invitation from God, what is the fulness and abundance of the glory of HIs inhertiance in the saints.

I wonder how many of us are walking around in the dark about the true inheritance for the saints and living in that joyful expectation of what we will one day see fully?  Or are we simply caught up in the here and now and not reflecting on what God has in store for his children.