Ephesians 3:19 "and to know this love that surpasses knowledge–that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
This verse is placed in the middle of a prayer by Paul for the church at Ephesus. This short prayer highlights "love" three times: "rooted and established in love", "to grasp how long and wide and high and deep is the love of Christ", and finally our focus verse, "and to know this love that surpasses knowledge".
This is so incredible! I love it. God wants us to "know this love that surpasses knowledge". In other words, let me rephrase this verse, "Paul wants us to know this love that surpasses what we can know." Did you catch it? It's like me saying, I want you to know something, but, oh yea, it surpasses what you can know. Are you a bit confused? I was too, at first.
To help explain, I will put the definition beside a few words in this verse. So, here it is, "to know (experience) this love that surpasses (goes beyond) knowledge (a measured boundary or reached limit)." Now, let's read it again substituting these words with their definition. "to experience this love that goes beyond anything that can be measured or any limit that is set." Wow - that's good!
Here's the point: God's love is beyond what we can measure! It always goes beyond where we think it should end!
Has someone given up on you? Do you feel unloveable? Have you given up on someone? Have you ever thought about yourself or someone else and said, "God can't love them"? Listen, we need to experience this love that goes beyond our limits. God's infinite love always surpasses our finite limits. Anytime someone says, "God can't love them", they have set a limit that God's love will always go beyond. Always!
Here's what we should do: Let's actively pursue the surrendering of our heart and life to allow Christ to work in us. The more we do this the more we will experience His love that cannot be measured, His love that cannot fail, His love that drives out fear, His love He has lavished on us, His love that caused Him to give His very life for us. Then, we will experience the life He came to give us, a life to the full, a life without limits!
Three concluding thoughts:
1. The purpose of God's Word is not reached when it is read through, but when it is lived out!
2. Don't put limits on God's love for you or anyone else because there are none!!!
3. Are you serving Christ from the LEVERAGE OF LOVE or the DELUSION OF DUTY???
Check out these verse for further study: 1 John 3:1; 4:16-21; 1 Corinthians 13; Romans 5:6-8
Live well,
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