For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, 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 to all the fullness of God.
I could read this passage every morning and every night, and still I would forget it during the day. In my frustration with myself over things done or things not done, I so easily forget the vastness of Christ’s love for me. I slip into legalism and disappointment in myself quickly and constantly throughout each day. I miss out on being “rooted and grounded in love,” and so steal joy from myself at every turn. This passage reminds me that it is the Spirit who can remind me of Christ’s infinite love for me. I must be in prayer for those reminders every day. And I must pray the same prayer for the “saints” in my life, that they too will be reminded of Christ’s massive love for them. Without that knowledge, we can do nothing.
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