ListenDaily - 01 April 2009; More than you know.
I pray that you can believe in more than you know.
"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, 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 to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." Ephesians 3:14-21 (find this or any other passages at www.Biblegateway.org)
"And I pray that you...know this love that surpasses knowledge..."
Do you know how much God loves you?
We have some idea, but I don't think we can truly know the immensity of His love for us. It would be like asking a three year old if they know how much their Mother or Father loves them. They know...but they don't really know. They kind of get that parents work hard to provide, that they can be comforted when they bump their heads, and that when they are hungry they can be fed. It is sweet and wonderful, but it is not complete understanding. They don't understand overtime to pay the mortgage, giving up personal desires for good of the family, or that Mommy or Daddy would lay down their life, if necessary, for the child.
I think what we know about the love of Christ is kind of like that. Oh, we study, and we learn...we increase in knowledge. And we know that Jesus laid down His life for us.
But I think their is so much more, more that goes on in the Heavens, more that was required of Christ in His sacrifice...more than we can know.
But not more than we can believe.
That small child's belief in the love of Mommy and Daddy is not limited to what he has experienced; he cannot imagine a limit to their love, and believes in it fully. And while earthly Mothers and Fathers will fall short of that perfect and complete love, our Heavenly Father never does.
We cannot really know the extent of His love for us.
But we can believe it. As Paul says at the end of this passage:
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine..."
And pray for someone else, that they will believe more than they know.
Amen.
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Questions:
1. IAre your beliefs ever limited by your knowledge?
2. For whom have you prayed today?
3. Will you pick one person, out of your normal circle, and pray for them every day during this study?
INTERESTING THOUGHTS ON TRUTH:
"Where I found truth,
there found I my God,
who is the truth itself."
Augustine
"Never let us be guilty of sacrificing
any portion of truth on the altar of peace."
J.C.Ryle
"Truth is so obscure in these times,
and falsehood so established, that,
unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
Blaise Pascal
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