Ephesians 3:16-19 “I pray that out of the glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I
pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

First, I want to touch on verse 18. We need to understand exactly how great the love of Christ is. His love is total, complete, in all, and through all. It reaches every corner of our lives, every experience we have. Christ’s love is wide it covers everything, and reaches out to the entire world. His love is long, throughout our lives it is ever present, we can never be outside of his love for us. His love is high, it is with us in celebration and elation, in our everyday moments of joy and happiness. His love is also deep, it is with us in despair, hurt, grief, pain, and anything that stops us in our tracks and brings us to our knees. No matter where we are in life, no matter if we feel isolated and alone if we belong to Christ He is with us. His love is covering us and active.

How then do we experience the fullness of God’s love? What actions must we take to know him fully? We learn of Christ through reading his word. By studying, digging into scripture, and letting it sink into our hearts and minds. When we do, it activates our faith. We read of his faithfulness throughout all time to his people. And as we read we grow in our relationship with Christ, which should make us more prayerful, understanding that no matter where you are you can speak to Him, knowing He hears you and He answers. Reading and praying, praying and reading as our pastor says helps you to trust God more. We cannot know him outside of his word. It is the table he has put before us.

So, we can appropriate our knowing by activating our faith, through prayer and study of his word. We can ask the Holy Spirit to fill every area of our lives. I know in my life I need to be filled with the fullness of God. I want to know him, I need to see in his word how he has delivered his people in the past, how he has led them through the wilderness and even through moments of the miraculous, full of joy. It grounds me, it encourages me, it reveals to me who He is, and it gives me confidence in my daily walk.

I also believe that we need to be in fellowship with other believers. We need to be in church, surrounded by other saints, to help us, grow us, support us, encourage us, pray with us, rejoice with us, and be our family.
In Hebrews 10:25 it says: “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much more, as ye see the day approaching.”

People, Jesus is coming back, but until he does we must live in a world that seems to have lost its mind and all of its morals. The prince of the power of the air is having a blast. We need to stand firm with one another, praying for one another. We need to read His word and talk to Him often in prayers. Prayer is the most powerful thing we can do on this earth as Christians and all too often it is only a last resort. Daily prayer, daily reading, and asking for wisdom and understanding.

I want to be filled to the full measure of the fullness of God. Do you?

Maybe all you can squeeze into your day is one scripture, if that is the case take it, meditate on it, pray about it, and let it start filling your soul, mind, and heart to the fullness of God. His word is living and active, even a nibble has more power than we can even imagine.