Devotion:
Read Ephesians 3:16-19.
Love is often considered an emotion, a feeling, a leaning of the heart. We have to know a person to love them, and yet even that knowledge is not the end of love. Paul reminds believers of this basic truth when he prays that they may “know this love that surpasses knowledge.” Paul is talking here about the love of God, and he’s saying that it’s not enough to know about God without loving God.
The standard of love that believers strive for is to be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. That’s a lofty standard. God is far beyond what our minds can comprehend or our hearts can hold. We will never achieve this total fullness. This is a powerful prayer and what a wonderful goal to guide us in living our life. We must be continually growing in this fullness of God.
This is an inspirational prayer offered for us, but it’s also a prayer to offer on behalf of others. What a transformation of our relationships when an entire community of believers together experience a growing fullness of God’s love. It’s beyond our ability to imagine.
Personal Worship Option:
This song immediately came to mind. Read these wonderful lyrics:
How High and How Wide
No eye has seen and no ear has heard
And no mind has ever conceived
The glorious things that You have prepared
For every one who has believed
You brought us near and You called us Your own
And made us joint heirs with Your Son
How high and how wide
How deep and how long
How sweet and how strong is Your love
How lavish Your grace
How faithful Your ways
How great is Your love, O Lord
Objects of mercy who should have known wrath
We're filled with unspeakable joy
Riches of wisdom, unsearchable wealth
And the wonder of knowing Your voice
You are our treasure and our great reward
Our hope and our glorious King
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