LOVE THAT SURPASSES KNOWLEDGE
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Scripture Reading: Ephesians 3:16-19
[May you] know this love that surpasses knowledge … [being] filled … [with] the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:19
Love is commonly considered an emotion—a feeling, an inclination of the heart.
Love involves knowing the person we love, and yet even that knowledge is not the end of love.
Paul reminds his readers of this basic truth when he prays that they may “know this love that surpasses knowledge.” Paul is talking here about the love of God, and he’s saying that it’s not enough to know about God without having love for God.
The standard of love that believers strive for is to “be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” That’s a high standard indeed!
God is, in every way, far beyond what our minds can comprehend or our hearts can contain. We will never achieve this total fullness!
But what a powerful prayer this is—and what a wonderful goal to guide us in living our life! To be continually growing in this “fullness of God” and his love is the delight of discipleship.
This is a wonderful prayer offered for us—but it’s also a prayer to offer on behalf of others. What a transformation of our relationships when an entire community of Christ’s disciples experiences together a growing fullness of God’s love.
It’s beyond our ability to imagine!
Prayer
Lord, fill us to overflowing with your fullness so that we love you more and serve you better. Help us to keep offering this prayer for others, that we may all grow in you. Amen.
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The full measure of God’s unconditional love for us, we do not understand. In order for us to truly love, we must first open our heart to receive the love of God. We must be a receptacle that is receptive to God’s love by living a good christian lifestyle.
When we become receptive to God’s love, we are filled to overflowing and our love love will manifest itself to Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ . Amen
The gift of Godly love is a gift given to all confessed Christians and one must nuture that gift by walking
the good fight of faith. Living faith will assure one of knowing love beyond knowledge. Then one can
love others as God loves them. Even our family members. We may not like them; but, we love them just
the same because they are family. We are pressed on all sides yet we still have the love of GOD within
our hearts because we are filled with the Holy Spirit.
I have enjoyed your daily thoughts on Ephesians, especially 3:14-19. That passage has been set before me countless times over the past 6 months, and I know that God is revealing Himself to me in different ways, through this passage. The phrase ‘love that surpasses knowledge’ is of special interest to me. We tend to think of it as meaning that God’s love is greater than we can comprehend. May I suggest an additional meaning, supported by 1 Cor 13. In this hurting world, full of pain and hopelessness, a head full of knowledge is worthless without a heart full of God’s love. I fully believe that the body of believers must be less concerned with knowledge, and more concerned with being the hands and feet of Jesus. Once God’s love is experienced, the hunger and thirst for more of Him will come. That is when knowledge can be nurtured.