As I listened, I was touched by her words. I sat next to two Christian friends, whose love for me had been evident only moments before, in a place where I come to worship God each week. My thoughts were drawn to my heavenly Father, whose single-word description is love.
Later, I read this passage with new understanding:
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, 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.
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Ephesians 3:14-21
It struck me that the most powerful force at work in our lives as Christians is Godly love. Grasping the enormity of Christ's love and experiencing it is the beginning of being filled to the measure of the fullness of a God whose very nature is love. God's spirit at work in our inner being is the comforting presence of God's love in us, at work in us. The one who is able to do the unfathomable accomplished his greatest work out of his love for us. For God so loved... is the message of hope that we have experienced and bring to our world.
