Ephesians 3:18-19
“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.”
“And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.”
Earlier in the chapter Paul speaks of The Gospel as God’s secret work exposed, where Jew and gentile have the same position before God. This verse tells the rest of the mystery, that God is love. He need not be appeased and placated as the ancient heathen gods. This God loves, to the extent he himself did the appeasing on our behalf. And we can trust him as much as his high, wide and deep love for us.
Lord, you are beautiful. Your love for us is, as you, beyond our imagination. Thank you for calling me into a place in your family. Thank you, Lord Jesus, for showing the way.