February 10, 2023 ROOTED AND GROUNDED
Ephesians 3:16-20 “that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us.”
You could never accurately summarize the word of God; however, this passage does present to a great degree the over-all desire that God has for His people. What God desires for us and has made available to us is absolutely amazing; but Paul prays that we “may be able to comprehend” what God has for His people. What we must understand is that the things that God has for us to experience do not happen automatically. Our part of the process is to have a heart that seeks to know Him, to learn of His ways, to learn of our new identity as sons and daughters of God and because we love Him, keep His commandments. Even though we have a part to play, it is only by His grace that we know what He has for us and it is only by His grace that we can do our part. Once we understand and embrace what God desires for us, we are able to live life from a new perspective; we see that real life, abundant life, life that satisfies, comes only from God-not from our own doing. His life is not dependent on circumstances; His life always flows within us, ‘springing up as a well.” (John 4:13-14) God will strengthen us in our inner man, and because Christ dwells in us, we will be rooted and grounded in love. And it gets better-we can “be filled up with all the fullness of God.” I’m not sure what it looks like to be filled up with all the fullness of God, but that is what Christ desires for us and it the very thing that we can experience. Let us know that God loves us and He wants our lives to overflow with His presence-all the time; He wants us to know His ways and to walk in His ways. All that God has for His people is beyond our comprehension, yet, because of His great mercy and grace, we can experience all that He has for us. Do not believe the lie that says that we are merely human beings who must do the best we can; rather, believe and embrace all that God has said about the life He has for us to experience in the here and now.
1 John 4:16 “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in Him.”
Colossians 1:26-27 “that is, the mystery that has been hidden from the past ages and generation; but has now been manifested to His saints, to whom God has willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
Blessings,
Buddy
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