SCRIPTURE: 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. Ephesians 3:18-19 NLT
THOUGHT: Tagging onto yesterday’s devotional about the amazing resources and strength and love that God shares with us through his triune nature, we come to Paul’s next words to the Ephesians. He speaks of “the power to understand,” and what a curious phrase that is. What kind of power does it take to comprehend God’s love? His very next statement admits that it is too great to understand fully, so what can he mean? Well, sometimes the only “power” we have to understand something is experience. We may not be able to explain it, we may not be able to grasp it fully or live it out perfectly, but we surely know it when we have encountered the love of God. It is an experience we never forget.
Paul speaks a blessing to the Ephesians (and us) when he says: May you experience the love of Christ. He goes on to say that the experience of this great, wide, long, high, deep love will complete us. We will be whole, full of life, with power flowing from our rootedness in the one who is love.
PRAYER: Oh God, and grant us the power to understand the width, length, height and depth of the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Through our experience with that amazing love, make us complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from you.
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