Isn’t it amazing how every time we return to the Word, it speaks again? Praise the living God for His living Word. I’m in Ephesians 3 and Paul is describing the love of Christ as the key to being filled with the fullness of God—

Ephesians 3:17-19 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

The first few years of my journey were filled with sin and compromise and shame, as I didn’t grow up in the church and I was a stranger to love. All I’ve offered to my journey is to not give up as He does His great work within me. My former accolades proved meager in sight of His glory. It was the possibility of His great love which kept me going. My holy grail. He didn’t hide His love from me but there has been, and still is, a consistent seeking. It’s the least I can offer, really, an honor, to know Him and be empowered to love Him rightly in return. Over the years, I’ve seen that it was, and still is, His love that unlocked not only my hardened heart, but the Scriptures themselves.

Paul describes a multidimensional love (length, depth, height) of Jesus which establishes within us like a tree with deep roots or a house with a solid foundation. This love surpasses knowledge, not because it avoids it, but because it overflows it. It’s wide enough to embrace the world, deep enough to reach the most broken places, and high enough to lift us into His fullness.

The Lord is doing a great work of establishment in His Saints in this time. We can do all the things, yet without love, we are truly nothing.

Ephesians 3:20-21 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.