Yesterday's finale closed out the arc. Today, let's sit with the verse underneath all five days: "...and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God" (Ephesians 3:19).
The Misconception: The More Is Out There, For Someone Else
Many of us read a verse like this and file it under "someone more spiritual." The idea that a person could be filled to the full measure of God sounds like a mountaintop experience for monks and missionaries, not for an ordinary Tuesday.
Read the verses around it, though, and you'll find something different.
What Paul Actually Prays
Paul isn't praying for the Ephesians to earn a spiritual upgrade. In verses 16 and 17 he asks 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." Christ dwelling in your heart is the starting point, not the finish line.
Then verse 17-18: "being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord's people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ."
Count the dimensions. Wide. Long. High. Deep. A box has walls. This prayer has none.
Notice the Word "Grasp"
Paul doesn't say climb to. He doesn't say earn. He says grasp, to take hold of what has already been poured out. And he says we do it "together with all the Lord's people." This is not a solo achievement. It's a shared reaching toward something that's already there.
Within Us
Verse 20 is where the whole week lands: "Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us."
Within us. The more isn't out there waiting for you to earn it. It's already at work in you. The ceiling you kept hitting was never where God stopped. It was where you stopped asking for all of Him.
Sit With This
Read verses 14-21 slowly, out loud if you can. Then ask: What would change if I believed the "more" is already at work in me? You don't have to answer everything. Just notice what rises.
Not more from Him. More of Him.
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