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Jesus - Your Fullness and Fulfiller

How Full Is the Fullness of God?

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19)

“Filled to the measure of all the fullness of God…” What would THAT look like on a measuring cup? I know what a quart looks like… even a gallon. I can’t drink a gallon of anything in one sitting, so what would it feel like to be “filled to the measure of all the fullness of God?” It surpasses human knowledge. It’s wider and longer and deeper than anything I can dream. It is beyond myself because it’s absolutely and completely full, lacking nothing in any part of me., wanting no more.

This is the fullness Jesus offers in Himself, and while we may never fully grasp the entirety of this fullness on this side of eternity, we certainly can go after it! We can pray each day to be more and more filled with it, and we can expect those prayers to be answered! So why don’t we do more asking? Perhaps because we get caught up in our own finite abilities to perceive and experience “all the fullness of God.” But that doesn’t mean it’s not available to us by His Spirit.

Imagine what would happen… what could happen… if we prayed a simple prayer each day, inviting God to fill us more full with Himself, than the day before? Who knows what kind of “on earth as it is in heaven” we might experience? Only God knows! So why not trust Him to fill us more full as we pray in faith for Him to do so? He can do so much more than we can get our pretty little human heads around. Ask and you shall receive!

Prayer:

God, fill me with more of you than I had yesterday. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.