The Apostle Paul writes to the Ephesians, “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:17-19 (NIV)
Yesterday we considered the concept of “being rooted and established in love” as essential to being filled with the fulness of God. But in addition to that, the Apostle prays that the Ephesians “may have power…to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge.” This too is clearly vital for being filled with God’s fulness. I think it could be said that the more we experience of the love of Christ for us, the more we will experience the fulness of God in our lives.
But experiencing Christ’s love requires power, the power to grasp it. Why is that? I don’t think it’s because it is in some way evasive. The opposite is true. It’s because we are so evasive. That is to say, so easily distracted to where we lose sight of the one reality that — to experience it — is perfect peace and joy. We need power to keep redirecting our thoughts back to how precious we are to Jesus so that he can easily keep on reassuring us that it is so.
