Verse of the Day 6/8

 

Verse of  the  Day 6/8

 

Ephesians 3:17-18 

¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸ may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,  English Standard Version (ESV)

The other day in Psalm 8:1 we considered the majesty of  God  that  we see in creation and in man, who was created in His  image.  We also considered what A.W. Tozer referred  to as having "astonished reverence" Him for  all of this.  David  expressed it  in  Psalm  8 in asking  the question "oh  what  is man  that  you  are mindful of him?".

 

David's response to God was this great psalm of  praise that has been converted into  many a song,  one  of  my favorites is  "The  Majesty and  Glory of Your Name".  In today's verses and passage the  Apostle Paul has similar feelings in his heart and he offers a prayer of thanksgiving  to God for giving him the  ability, giving him the mind  that  can comprehend "what is the  breadth and length and height and  depth" of God's love  for him.

 

His prayer is not only in thanksgiving  to God, but  that  his  readers then and  us 2000 years later would have and  experience  that same "astonished reverence".  He asks, in the ESV that  we would have the  strength to comprehend.  It comes from the word  "dunamus" from  which  we get the word dynamite.  It  is  a dynamic, explosive  power, the kind  of power that  caused David to  break  out in song,  not only in Psalm 8 but in so  many of  his  psalms.

 

My prayer for  you,  for us, is  that  we  may experience some of that power today, to  experience that "astonished reverence" to the  point  where  we would  explode if  we tried  to  hold it  in.  Sing out,  tell  of His glory, His  love for  you and tell  someone about  it.  If  you haven't yet experienced  this, pray,  "open the door  and invite him in".  (The  Message)

 

 

 

 

Blessings,

 

Mike

 

Ephesians 3:14-19The Message (MSG)

^14-19 My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.

 

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