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Ephesians 3:19 - Experiencing the Love of Christ and the Fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:19 (NLT) 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.  

Ephesians 3:19 (AMP) [That you may really 
come] to know [practically, through experience for 
yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere 
knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled 
[through all your being] unto all the fullness of God 
[may have the richest measure of the divine 
Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded 
with God Himself]!  

WORD STUDY

The Fullness of God is fully expressed only 
in Christ (Colossians 2:9, 10). In union with 
Christ and through his empowering Spirit, we are 
complete. We have all the fullness of God available to 
us. But we must appropriate that fullness 
through faith and through prayer as we daily live 
for him.  [Life Application SB] 

Filled with all the fullness of God: To be 
so strong spiritually, so compelled by divine 
love, that one is totally dominated by the Lord 
with nothing left of self. Human comprehension of 
the fullness of God is impossible, because even 
the most spiritual and wise believer cannot 
completely grasp the full extent of God's attributes 
and characteristics His power, majesty, wisdom, 
love, mercy, patience, kindness, and everything He 
is and does. But believers can experience the 
greatness of God in their lives as a result of total 
devotion to Him. Note the fullness of God, here; the 
fullness of Christ in 4:13; and the fullness of the 
Spirit in 5:18). [MacArthur Daily Bible 2003] 

COMMENTARY PEARL

   Truth in Christ and through Christ is 
measureless. The student of Scripture looks, as it were, 
into a fountain that deepens and broadens as he 
gazes into its depths. Not in this life shall we 
comprehend the mystery of God's love in giving His Son 
to be the propitiation for our sins. The work 
of our Redeemer on this earth is and ever will 
be a subject that will put to the stretch our 
highest imagination. Man may tax every mental power 
in the endeavor to fathom this mystery, but his 
mind will become faint and weary. The most 
diligent searcher will see before him a boundless, 
shoreless sea.  
   The truth as it is in Jesus can be 
experienced, but never explained. Its height and breadth 
and depth pass our knowledge. We may task our 
imagination to the utmost, and then we shall see only 
dimply the outlines of a love that is 
unexplainable, that is as high as heaven, but that stooped 
to the earth to stamp the image of God on all 
mankind.  
   Yet it is possible for us to see all that 
we can bear of the divine compassion. This is 
unfolded to the humble, contrite soul. We shall 
understand God's compassion just in proportion as we 
appreciate His sacrifice for us. As we search the word 
of God in humility of heart, the grand theme of 
redemption will open to our research. It will increase 
in brightness as we behold it, and as we aspire 
to grasp it, its height and depth will ever 
increase.  
   Our life is to be bound up with the life 
of Christ; we are to draw constantly from Him, 
partaking of Him, the living Bread that came down from 
heaven, drawing from a fountain ever fresh, ever 
giving forth its abundant treasures. If we keep the 
Lord ever before us, allowing our hearts to go 
out in thanksgiving and praise to Him, we shall 
have a continual freshness in our religious life. 
Our prayers will take the form of a conversation 
with God as we would talk with a friend. He will 
speak His mysteries to us personally. Often there 
will come to us a sweet joyful sense of the 
presence of Jesus. Often our hearts will burn within 
us as He draws nigh to commune with us as He 
did with Enoch. When this is in truth the 
experience of the Christian, there is seen in his life 
a simplicity, a humility, meekness, and 
lowliness of heart, that show to all with whom he 
associates that he has been with Jesus and learned of 
Him.  COL128-130 

ONE LINER

To know (have a relationship with) God is to 
love Him; DA22 

LINKS FOR FURTHER STUDY 

Ephesians 3:19: Experiencing the Love of 
Christ and the Fullness of God. 

https://www.abible.com/devotions/2023/20230802-1029.html 

http://www.abible.com/devotions/2022/20221010-0845.html 

http://www.abible.com/devotions/2019/20191212-0906.html 

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