Paul has been praying for the Christians in Ephesus and he concludes his prayer with a doxology. If the first part of this doxology took us where no other doxology has then, as it reaches its climax here, we are taken even further. The first part made the link between the Christ – the anointed and promised One – and Jesus. 

The second introduces the church, which exists to bring glory to God through its life and witness to Christ Jesus – something Paul sees as essential for every generation. The link between Christ and the Church is again an interesting one – the Church isn’t Christ, but it is the body of Christ and bears witness in this world to Jesus. Paul calls on the church to bring glory to God through expressing its relationship with Jesus in ways that people can see. In other words, those who have not yet discovered how amazing Jesus is and all He offers to them through His cross and resurrection need to see the difference in a way that enables them to taste the difference that God offers to them “Taste and see that God is good”.