The Love of Christ (pt 5) Wide+Long+High+Deep

Ephesians 3:18-19
"...may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." nkjv

We already know, Paul's words here are actually God's Words. And Paul's prayers recorded in the Scriptures were in line with God's will and therefore always accurate and answered. John backed this up by saying "Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him."1 John 5:14-15 nkjv. Knowing this, we can see that Paul was praying for every single Christian saint, truly elected and born of God. This means we have been granted the power by God to comprehend how wide and long and high and deep is the Love of Christ as a result of the Apostle Paul's prayers for us. Yet as Paul also writes here, no matter how wide and long and high and deep we know the Love of Christ, we will never come to the end of it for His Love is as eternal as He Himself is for God is Love.

Jeremiah 31:3
"The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying:
'Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.'"


We often speak of the fact that Christians are born of God. It may bless us even more to ponder from God's Word the fact that we were first conceived of God long before we were born of Him. The Scriptures make it clear to us that God had conceived, through His Love for us, our planned birth in His Spirit from the foundation of the world. God foreknew the sinful and rebellious course of mankind and He already formed the idea within the fellowship of His eternal Son and Holy Spirit that the Son, Christ Jesus, would come as a pure man, give His life for our sin, and be raised to Life again to save us from eternal separation from Him, which is Hell. Christ the Lamb of God was slain from the foundation of the world and you were on His mind at that eternal moment. We are all now living out what God has conceived from eternity. As Paul spoke to those worshiping "THE UNKNOWN GOD" he said "God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. "Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. "And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings," (Acts 17:24-26) nkjv

Ephesians 1:3-14
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory." nkjv

How wide, how long, how high and how deep is the Love of Christ? Can you see all the space and planets in the heavens above? Can you fathom eternity, picturing our planet earth's existence encapsulated in time as a tiny spec in eternity? The Alpha, the Omega yet He is the Great "I AM". Loving you from the plans of Creation yet existing in this very moment for you. As close as your heart gently beating in the flesh of your body and growing in strength as you sense the Loving presence of His Grace in your soul. And He will never leave you or forsake you. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His Love never fails you. He has cast your sins as far as the east is from the west, never to speak of them again. As much as Satan hates you, Christ’s Love conquers it all so never fear his attacks. They are meant to produce in you His likeness.


"Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal." (2 Cor 4:16-18) nkjv

You are Christ's Love and He is yours. His lovingkindness drew you to Him and the same will keep you to the end. His Love is better than this life so praise Him with all that is within you. Bless His name in the sanctuary of your heart, His eternal abode. Let only His Life with all His Grace, Mercy, Truth, and Love convict your heart to keep you humble, pure and repentant before Him and Him alone. And let His Spirit reign in your mortal body so others may see this Light of Jesus in your eyes so that God may grant they realize their need for this worlds only Savior, Whom you have living within.
"And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, "I believed and therefore I spoke," we also believe and therefore speak, knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God." (2 Cor 4:13-15)nkjv

Come to know, encourage, exhort, edify and administer the forgiving Grace to all those who faithfully call upon the name of the Lord out of a pure heart in Spirit and Truth where ever you meet them. For they are of the same Lord, Spirit, Faith, and Baptism into the Body of Christ as you are. This is all just the beginning of "Knowing the Love of Christ" which passes our finite comprehension.

"Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out! "For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become His counselor?"
"Or who has first given to Him and it shall be repaid to him?"
For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever.
Amen." (Rom 11:33-36) nkjv

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