"That you may be filled with all the fulness of God," Ephesians 3:19.
The goal of the prayer that believers be filled with God's fulness ... what means this? The fulness of God? Is he serious?! Perhaps, the phrase is, you know, just Paul overstating the point to make a meeker point, like, be sure to be religious and be nice to each other. Or, maybe, he's talking big picture here, when we're all dead and gone and living blissfully in heaven, then God's fulness finally fills us? No and No. On our behalf, Paul requests the Father for the Spirit's inner strength. Now. For Christ to dwell in hearts. Now. To be rooted and grounded in love. Now. To know the beyond-understanding love of Christ. Now. And in this Spirit-strength, in this heart-dwelling Christ, in this love-rootedness/grounding, in this knowing the love of Christ: here we find the fulness of God fills us. Now.
So we worship and give thanks to God, creator of all that is, to God, filler of void souls. Pray today with a brother or sister thanking our God, filled with his love.
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