Ephesians 3:16-19 I pray that from His glorious, unlimited resources He will empower you with inner strength through His Spirit. Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust Him. Your roots will grow down into God's love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high and how deep His love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
This is the verse that I was focusing on last night as I worked on our Ephesians Bible study. And of course, as only God can do, He brought it up again to me this morning from a totally separate source.
As I studied it last night, I was asking God, how. How can I know and understand this love, the unlimited, infinite, eternal love? How can I be completely grounded in it? And then God brought it up again this morning. That can only tell me that He truly wants my attention on this verse and that He really does want me to understand. And he began His answer to the "How."
I certainly do not have this figured out, and it will be an on going work for sure. But God is clearly telling me and all of His children that He wants us not only to know how much He loves us, but to be secure in it. One phrase jumped out at me as I was typing these verses at the start of this entry...."as you trust Him." And I believe that is where I start. Trust. Not feeling, not seeing...trusting. Belief in spite of circumstances, emotions and sight. If I believe that He loves me, even if all things in my life are scattered and torn, then I am grounded in His love and it begins to fill me. Christ becomes at home in my heart and He Himself starts to fill me....the more I trust, the more fully He is alive and at home in my heart, the more His power is manifest in my life.
And think about this, is Christ going to feel welcome and at home in a heart that mistrusts and doubts Him? Would any of us feel at comfortable in a place like that? So it stands to reason, that if I want more of Him, His power, His life, His likeness in my life, I need to make my heart a place that Christ would feel welcomed and embraced.
As I said, I don't have this all figured out yet, but I do want to explore and meditate on it more. And I do want to TRUST. It is always amazing to me when God does this thing with certain verses....you know, keeps bringing the same verse up in all different ways. That always lets me know it is something He wants to emphasize in my life. It's definitely God visiting and I am so glad He does.
Help me Lord to trust. Help me and all of us to know the amazing scope of Your love for us...even though it is beyond our complete comprehension. Lord, help us to make our hearts a place you feel at home in. And let Your love flow through us to others who are in need of this unlimited love of Yours. In Jesus name. Amen.
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