S. Eph 3:19 (NLT - I just started reading the new living and I love it!)
"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."
O. It seems that the key to fullness of life and power lies in understanding and experiencing the love that Christ has for us, his people, on a deeply personal level. I think that so many of us feel unlovable. At least that the God of the universe should have someone better to love than us right? I know that I often feel that way. But that is just the enemy crippling us from receiving the fullness of life and power that we are meant to have in order to defeat him! Some of us just need to get over our selves and deal with the fact that GOD LOVES US each individually, deeply, passionately. And there is NOTHING we could ever do to deserve it, or to stop it!
A. It's so like us humans to feel that we need to earn our stripes, that we can not just take hand outs. But when we get over this and just accept and receive Christ's love for us we are suddenly full of life and power! We become alive in Christ, and powerful against the enemy of our souls. I don't know about you, but I want me some of that power! So lets just get over ourselves and let Christ love us, really love us. Let's embrace that love and cling to it for dear life. Just because he loves us doesn't mean that you are letting it change your life. So let it. Embrace it. Walk in it every day. Be full of life. Be full of power.
P. Lord I pray that you will help me to get over my own imperfections and inadequacies, and simply accept your love for me with a grateful heart.
1 comment:
I LOVE the S.O.A.P. concept! What a simple way to approach Bible study.
God's blessings have poured out of you and are spilling over onto me (and the many who will read your blog).
May you be blessed in return for your faithful obedience to be in the Word.
Thank you Nikki~
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