Love

Hi guys! :)

To start the week off, I'd just like to share with all of you a passage that really spoke to me during my quiet time today :)

Ephesians 3: 17-19

"And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have the power, together with all of God's holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled with the measure of all fullness of God"

I was sitting on the swing in my garden reading my bible in the evening and when I read this verse and the paradoxical phrase of knowing God's love which surpasses all knowledge, there was a sudden rush of air around me and the cool breeze swept across my face in a gentle, reassuring way which reminded me wonderfully of the miracle of God's love :)

We are so vastly, immensely, irrefutably loved by God our Father :) His love for us knows no limits, no boundaries and cannot be tainted by anything in this world- be it sin, doubt, bondage, pain or fear. So many times we hear how amazing God's love is for us, it enters our brains, we process and understand the informatoin and go "Ok that's great! I know that now!"

But the concept that Paul presents to us here in Ephesians is something more abstract, profound. The concept that Paul presents to us is that this love the Father has for us, can only be fully understood by us by the experential aspect of our spiritual lives. We cannot completely understand this love by dissection or analysis of bible verses, nor can we claim to know this love fully just because we possess knowledge of the details of Jesus' sacrifice on the cross for us. We can only truly know what the love of God encapsulates, when we experience this love for ourselves, in a tangible way that goes beyond the understanding, logic and rationale of our human minds, and dives right into our hearts, to touch us in a way that we cannot explain or condense coherently into words. The love of God is transcendental, and it is impossible to be captured in a sentence or even distilled into an EE essay. It exceeds our comprehension, our reasoning, our thoughts, our understanding and the only way to fully embrace this love is to open our hearts to God and ask with earnestness that He bless us by sprinkling dew drops of this great love on us more and more each day, that we may experience it to understand it more and more and more and MORE! :)

Let's make it the earnest prayer of our heart, to cry out to the Father everyday that He may give us a little experience of His love, be it through people or situaitons around us, that we may begin to know this love that surpasses all knowledge. And when we finally begin to know this love more, in ways than surpass knowledge, that is when our lives truly begin to be saturated with fullness; purpose.

This wonderful, heart-warming verse will rest in my heart for the rest of the week, and hopefully for the rest of my life. I hope that it will in yours too :)


In His love,
Soph :)