Ephesians 3: 18 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. 19 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.
The problems of living have walls that seem too high to climb. There are deep-seated issues that appear too hard to uproot...too entrenched to remove. We see only a few choices, at times, and we feel boxed in to a narrow life. Some chronic and recurring difficulties can feel like a life sentence...we wonder if we'll ever escape their grip. But then we read the passage above from the third chapter of Ephesians to discover the dimensions of God's love through His Son. The problems of our lives cannot run higher, sink deeper, stretch wider or last longer than His love. He made us and understands us. Jesus can absolutely identify with us and He lived among us. Our view of life and of ourselves is as limited as our ability to solve all of our problems and so we need the One who is unlimited, all seeing, all knowing....and most importantly all loving. We are often bent on fully understanding things. In the case of God's Love, we cannot. To experience a love that extends beyond our reach, we need a love that also reaches beyond our knowledge. But our faith need not depend on full comprehension as long as we comprehend our full dependence on Him!
blessings,
Rob Smith
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