A WORD IN SEASON TO THE WEARY
🌷🌷🌷 August 21 🌷🌷🌷
“…that ye …May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge” (Eph.3:17-19).
In Eph.3:19, Paul prays that the believers at Ephesus may know God’s love. Individually we cannot comprehend it: even though we spend years in meditating upon God’s Word, we will never know the mysteries by ourselves. In olden days, Roman Catholic monks thought that by living a lonely life, they would become more holy. In so doing they brought in many customs and rituals which made them worse, instead of better
The secret is God’s love can only be comprehended by the help of the saints, as shown in Eph. 3:17-19. His love is beyond human comprehension. All of us have to be brought together again and again. You will find our fellowship together as fellow-believers very inspiring and helpful. Unbelievers cannot have such fellowship. That fellowship will be among those who have the same experience of eternal life (1 John 1:3). So all fellowship begins for us in the Lord Jesus Christ and in God the Father. Whatever we receive in our own meditation and waiting upon the Lord, we should share together. Otherwise we will not be able to grow. That is why, the early Christians continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in prayers.
God’s love can be truly comprehended as we learn to have fellowship with fellow-believers everywhere. You have to make some sacrifice to gather with God’s people for prayer, for worship, for Bible study and for service. By that fellowship we are told that we will know the love of Christ with perfect knowledge and by such love we are made to understand why God wants us to have that share in His fulness. His love is so great that He wants us to receive all that He has. As loving parents take pleasure in giving their children all that they possess, even so the Lord wants to give us all that He has. Now we are being taught how we have to be prepared upon the earth for such a privilege in heaven, to enjoy God’s fulness.
