To know His love
Ephesians 3: 16-19
We hear Paul, by the Holy Spirit, praying for us:
“… that according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith-that you being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”
Twice here he prays for us to have “strength”.
Oh my friends, we need strength, we need to be empowered to believe His love. Why? Because the enemy’s battle against us, the battle to doubt God’s love, is so fierce.
The battle is often shadowed with the pain of our past, and then the enemy strikes with the insidious doubt of God’s love, the “where was He?” is sown into so many of our memories.
And so, I pray for myself and for you my friends, that today God will give us the strength to battle in our “inner being” and to see, to experience, and to walk in the truth of how mightily loved we are, and then to be able to truly love well those He brings into our lives.
I love how verse 20 follows up this prayer to encourage our hearts:
“now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think…”
He will do this for us my friends, He is relentless in His purpose to convince us of His love.
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