Contemplative Bible Reading

Ephesians 3:19 (New Living Translation)

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.

The love of Christ is too great to understand fully. I try, but if I could understand it fully, I would be greater that Christ and the love of Christ. That would make me God, and while I would like to … well, you know. It is folly, not fully.

The writer encourages us to experience the love of Christ, to live in it, by it, and through it. If we do, we will have the fullness of life that comes from God.

God gives us a full life. It is there, right in front of us. All I have to do (that phrase means I have to give up my self-promoted agenda, which is difficult for me) is reach and grasp the gift. My life will be full of the love of Christ.

What am I waiting for? Please God, help me in my unbelief.