Ephesians 3:17-18
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 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,
My living room illuminates in the morning as the sun rises each day. It is where I do my devotions and spend quiet time with my Lord. As I read this line in a prayer this morning ...., "May the Father bless you with a growing assurance of His great love for you", it brought me to Ephesians 3:18 and I wondered how many of God's children truly do not know the magnitude to which God loves them. The love that He has for us not only was shown on the cross at Calvary but in our lives each and every day. John 3:16 “For God so loved the world,that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life." So many people are consumed with what they do not have, praying for this or that, that they fail to realize how many things the Lord has spared us from, protected us from, kept us from, all out of love. We spend more time staring at the closed door, we miss the open one He has placed in front of us. We waste so much time worrying in our season of waiting that we miss the lessons in them. The Lord loves us beyond words and we are to love Him and others, unconditionally at all times. His love for us is how we should love others. To truly know how much the Lord loves you, teaches you how to love yourself which in turn gives you the ability to love others. Isn't the circle of love He created not as amazing as He is? Love today!
1 John 4:7 "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God."
"So many people are consumed with what they do not have, praying for this or that, that they fail to realize how many things the Lord has spared us from, protected us from, kept us from, all out of love."
ReplyDeleteThis way for me for so many years. It has just been in the past few weeks that I have change my way of thinking to that of gratitude. Since the change I have never so much peace in my life. I have come to realize that I have received so much blessings that far outnumber what I think I'm lacking.
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