READ: Ephesians 3:14-19: 14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 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, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
“Language can be used in a variety of ways: to name things, describes actions, provide information, command specific behaviors, tell the truth, tell lies, curse, bless. Language is incredibly and endlessly versatile. But in our heavily technologized and consumerized world, most of the words said and heard in most ordinary days have little or no relational or personal depth to them. They deal with a world of things and activities, machines and ideas.” –Eugene Peterson, Practice Resurrection
REFLECT: Paul prays that we would have the strength to comprehend the breadth and length and height and depth of Jesus’ love. Where does that strength come from? How do we get more? How can we express more of the depth of our experience in our everyday conversations?
RESPOND: Ask God for the strength to understand more thoroughly, see more clearly, Jesus’ love.