Ephesians 3:14-19 ESV
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 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.”
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 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.”
There is fullness in God we cannot obtain by knowledge alone; this fullness is beyond knowledge. In other words, we are never complete without it. we can cram all the knowledge of God inside us and from all appearances it would look like we could be complete with that knowledge; nonetheless, without being rooted and grounded in love, without the love of Christ we cannot be complete much less bear fruit of this kind (completeness in God).
One can spend a lifetime reading and dissecting scripture and miss love; knowing love comes from another source and that source is beyond the knowledge of Him, simply, it is Him. Because of my knowledge I know China is on this planet and have never placed my feet on its soil. There are those who can talk God all day and have never encountered Him.
Talking about this will never produce the practicality of knowing this. It is only hands on practice that we can know it. Until we practice His love we cannot know His love; it is the only way to know His love, it is beyond knowledge.
To come into the fullness of God is when we practice God. The military taught me how to jump out of air planes; they taught me how to be a paratrooper. Nonetheless, they did not put wings on my chest until I actually jumped from airplanes; knowing how was not enough to wear those wings. It was not until the silk popped above my head and I descended from the sky to the earth from a plane that I officially became a paratrooper.
Likewise, we cannot know the fullness of God (Love) until we practice God (Love).
One can spend a lifetime reading and dissecting scripture and miss love; knowing love comes from another source and that source is beyond the knowledge of Him, simply, it is Him. Because of my knowledge I know China is on this planet and have never placed my feet on its soil. There are those who can talk God all day and have never encountered Him.
Talking about this will never produce the practicality of knowing this. It is only hands on practice that we can know it. Until we practice His love we cannot know His love; it is the only way to know His love, it is beyond knowledge.
To come into the fullness of God is when we practice God. The military taught me how to jump out of air planes; they taught me how to be a paratrooper. Nonetheless, they did not put wings on my chest until I actually jumped from airplanes; knowing how was not enough to wear those wings. It was not until the silk popped above my head and I descended from the sky to the earth from a plane that I officially became a paratrooper.
Likewise, we cannot know the fullness of God (Love) until we practice God (Love).
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