love the Lord your God in whole of your heart and in whole of your soul and in whole of your mind.*
An expert in the Law asked Jesus what the greatest commandment was, Jesus said this was it, to love God in entirety. What does it mean to have a heart after God? could it be shown in the wholeness of how we love God? And doesn't this tell us what is more important to God, that we love Him in whole? We understand love because he loved us, he revealed such truth to us. And we understand when we were dead in our trespasses and sin God so loved us, sending us His Son. Why did God create men, to have servants, or to love? I believe the latter.
so that to exist strong, laying hold together with all the saints, what the width, length, height, and debt, these all knowing the love of Christ, that surpassing, so that knowing, filled to all the fullness of God.*
Is there strength in God's love? is it why the bond of love leads to perfection? There is a fullness of God to be filled in knowing Christ. Paul writes we grow up in knowledge of Jesus, in whom is all wisdom and understanding. God has given us all things for godliness and life through His Son but we must lay hold of these things, to grow up in knowledge of Him. Paul is praying that we may comprehend this, a love that has no bounds. In knowing Christ we know of this surpassing love. Powerful words in regards to our identity in Christ, something we see dimly as a child but in maturity of growth in knowing Him, in fullness, we see clear.
An expert in the Law asked Jesus what the greatest commandment was, Jesus said this was it, to love God in entirety. What does it mean to have a heart after God? could it be shown in the wholeness of how we love God? And doesn't this tell us what is more important to God, that we love Him in whole? We understand love because he loved us, he revealed such truth to us. And we understand when we were dead in our trespasses and sin God so loved us, sending us His Son. Why did God create men, to have servants, or to love? I believe the latter.
so that to exist strong, laying hold together with all the saints, what the width, length, height, and debt, these all knowing the love of Christ, that surpassing, so that knowing, filled to all the fullness of God.*Is there strength in God's love? is it why the bond of love leads to perfection? There is a fullness of God to be filled in knowing Christ. Paul writes we grow up in knowledge of Jesus, in whom is all wisdom and understanding. God has given us all things for godliness and life through His Son but we must lay hold of these things, to grow up in knowledge of Him. Paul is praying that we may comprehend this, a love that has no bounds. In knowing Christ we know of this surpassing love. Powerful words in regards to our identity in Christ, something we see dimly as a child but in maturity of growth in knowing Him, in fullness, we see clear.
A selfless heart, agape loves. Paul counts everything as loss in order to know Christ, knowing this surpassing agape love. What is the motivation you think of Paul serving Christ? Why did God send His Son to die? because He so loved the world. What is the motivation for us serving God and why do we serve? And why do we serve others? Is it not out of agape love? a love that Paul prays that we have experiential knowledge of. If it is not about love then what is it about, some sacrificial duty of serving? Is it true that God created me to serve? Or is it true God created me to love Him? And is not my serving so that others may know Him like I know Him. To love Him is to know Him, "knowing the love of Christ, that surpassing, so that knowing, also filled to all the fullness of God." I serve because I am loved, because I am His child, favored.