To Know the Love of Christ
A few months ago, I called for the elders to pray for me for healing from diabetes, according to James 5:14-15. I didn’t receive complete healing at that time, though I began a journey, that day, of discovering in a deeper way the Love of God. The Lord gave me a glimpse of His love for me during that time of prayer, and He began to show me my need of receiving His love in a deeper way. He showed me some of the road blocks that have been endeavoring to keep me from receiving His love, and I believe that His love is the conduit through which faith and healing flow. Though I didn’t get fully healed that day, I have embarked on a journey that I believe will lead to healing, though not just healing, but being filled with all the fullness of God. This is the destination I believe the Lord is leading me to, as well as all who will seek after a revelation of the love of Christ, that they may be filled with all the fullness of God.
“..To know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” –Ephesians 3:19
At the beginning of His letter to the Ephesians, Paul starts off by addressing the church as saints, and he acknowledges their faithfulness in Christ. In chapter 2:8 he talks about how the church in Ephesus has been saved by grace through faith. Though it’s really interesting that once you get to chapter 3:14-21 you read that Paul is praying for that same church to be strengthened in their inner man (spirit) so that Christ might dwell in their hearts through faith. Wait a minute; why pray that for saints who are faithful in Christ and who are saved by grace through faith? Why would Paul be praying for born again believers that Christ would dwell in their hearts through faith? Didn’t that happen when they gave their life to Christ?
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from who every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” –Ephesians 3:14-19
This is what I believe Paul is praying; he is praying that God, by the power of His Spirit, would strengthen us in our spirit. This inward strength of spirit empowers us to believe unto Christ fully dwelling in us. To have the fullness of Christ dwelling in you, is to be rooted and grounded in love, by which we are able to comprehend Christ’s love which is beyond knowing. His love can’t be comprehended by the mind alone; it is received as a spiritual revelation. When we know this love which is beyond knowledge, it will transform our lives and cause us to live as one filled with all the fullness of God!
Impossible you say? Well, thank God the next verse says:
“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.” –Ephesians 3:20-21
Oh, God can do it! He wants to do it! Let us pray, like Paul did, that we would be strengthened with power in our inner man, so that we might have faith by which Christ may fully dwell in us! Let’s pray that we would be rooted and grounded in Christ’s love, that we would know by revelation the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge so that we might be filled with all the fullness of God!
Blessings,
Tim Glasgo
March 2, 2022
“..To know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” –Ephesians 3:19
At the beginning of His letter to the Ephesians, Paul starts off by addressing the church as saints, and he acknowledges their faithfulness in Christ. In chapter 2:8 he talks about how the church in Ephesus has been saved by grace through faith. Though it’s really interesting that once you get to chapter 3:14-21 you read that Paul is praying for that same church to be strengthened in their inner man (spirit) so that Christ might dwell in their hearts through faith. Wait a minute; why pray that for saints who are faithful in Christ and who are saved by grace through faith? Why would Paul be praying for born again believers that Christ would dwell in their hearts through faith? Didn’t that happen when they gave their life to Christ?
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from who every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.” –Ephesians 3:14-19
This is what I believe Paul is praying; he is praying that God, by the power of His Spirit, would strengthen us in our spirit. This inward strength of spirit empowers us to believe unto Christ fully dwelling in us. To have the fullness of Christ dwelling in you, is to be rooted and grounded in love, by which we are able to comprehend Christ’s love which is beyond knowing. His love can’t be comprehended by the mind alone; it is received as a spiritual revelation. When we know this love which is beyond knowledge, it will transform our lives and cause us to live as one filled with all the fullness of God!
Impossible you say? Well, thank God the next verse says:
“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.” –Ephesians 3:20-21
Oh, God can do it! He wants to do it! Let us pray, like Paul did, that we would be strengthened with power in our inner man, so that we might have faith by which Christ may fully dwell in us! Let’s pray that we would be rooted and grounded in Christ’s love, that we would know by revelation the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge so that we might be filled with all the fullness of God!
Blessings,
Tim Glasgo
March 2, 2022
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