#the dimensions of God's love

[psalmonesermons]

The dimensions of God's love Part 2

The width, length, depth, and height of God's love Ephesians 3:18-19

Picking up from Part 1 in Ephesians 3:18 we see that there is a supernatural order of the dimensions of God’s love.

The Holy Spirit directs our attention as follows.

A. What is Breadth? We have some difficulty in seeing the breadth of God’s love to all men of every race and colour, every age from a foetus in the mother’s womb to a man on his death bed, embracing each one of these. In all time past, back to Adam and forward to Christ’s second advent. This breadth tells the Jewish believers of God’s love for the Gentiles and tells us now of His love for all the various parts of the body of Christ. In my Father’s house there are many mansions. God’s love is so broad it embraces His whole family beyond any man-made barriers. He is not a respecter of rank or position. His love is so broad it includes from the humblest to the most exalted of his people.

B. Length, this invites us to meditate on the eternal nature of God’s love. Christ loved us before we got born again. 1 John 4:19 tells us that we love him, because he first loved us and as his love knows no end, so it has no beginning and is from everlasting to everlasting. Jeremiah 31:3 Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love, therefore with loving kindness. I have drawn thee the Lord says this to each one of us. His drawing of us unto himself is the effect of his love. John 13:1 Jesus loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. Romans 8:35-39 Nothing can separate us from God’s love. Are you catching a glimpse of its length?

C. Depth, another way to look at the depth of God’s love is to look back to where we came from, dying and on the way to eternal death. Each one of us can take a minute to meditate on how deep our Father’s love was to raise us up out of the pit of our sinful lives. We were children wrath by nature see Ephesians 2:1-6. Does this not speak to your heart of the Depth of our Father’s love?

D. Height, so far, we have seen the love of God has a boundless breadth, an endless length, a fathomless depth then surely its height is measureless? In trying to comprehend the height we may look to both our present privileges and our future promises as clearly identified in the word of God. 1 Samuel 2:8, Isaiah 56:5 Romans 8:16-17, 1 John 3:1, and Revelation 22:4-5,19 that we might know the love of Christ which passes knowledge by the Holy Spirit that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.

Did Paul get carried away with it here or was the Holy Spirit showing us the summit of the prayer?

Are we not heirs of the Father, joint heirs of Christ?

If we ask for bread, will he give us a stone or a snake instead of a fish?

This is the point; the word of God tells us that God wants us at filled with all His own fullness.

Our hearts and minds must constantly be occupied with the love of Christ to be prepared for the being filled with all his fullness.

Do you hunger and thirst for righteousness as in Matthew 5:6?

The Greek for ‘filled with all the fullness’ suggests a continuous process, a progressive and enlarging experience. As a vessel is filled to the brim the vessel then expands and the process continues thus our hearts will grow and take in more of him on an ongoing basis.

Suggestion: Let us agree not to pray any more weak and feeble prayers!

Pray for yourself and others in this manner.

Prayer Father God we bow our knees to you in the name of Jesus Christ. We ask that you grant us, according to your riches, that we might be strengthened with your mighty power in our inner man. We pray that Christ may be dwelling in our hearts by faith, and that we are becoming rooted and grounded in your divine love. We ask that we may be able to comprehend with all your saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of your love, and to come to truly know your love which surpasses mere human knowledge, that we might be filled with the love of God as you are Lord.

Lord, we know you can do much more above all we can ask or even think because your power is at work in us, and we say.

Amen

[bittersweet-mojo]

old people should be shot

[beegs-of-the-baronies]

[cryptocism]

a dænce of roëmænce

depictions of the ace experience never seem to include the nightmare-borne skeleton creature from hell so kudos to the dimension 20 team for their commitment to accurate rep

[jesse-is-inarguably-purple]

imagine ur garthy o’brien, just trying to fuck this hot ranger you met at your brothel that you own, except her teenage kids/wards/bosses keep knocking on the door to your bedroom and interrupting you guys and THEN you learn that she’s actually in a committed relationship but didn’t tell you, so THAT sucks but THEN one of the teens comes and finds you in the middle of the night yelling about how his friend is gone and they can’t find him and he might be in danger, so you help him teleport to his friend, and then when they all get back, looking extremely upset and dejected, you apologize to the ranger’s daughter for making her feel uncomfortable by fucking her mother and in the process SHE reveals to you that her mom’s boyfriend is actually this really cool werewolf guy that you KNOW and have fucked on multiple occasions

[frogsandmagic]

There’s honestly something so poetic about Wendell and Usha both having this big moment of confronting their alter egos,

but while Wendell is learning how to become one with his persona, Usha is slowly being taken over by hers.

[wyrmwright]

the love you can't even name

[crystaiskiess]

my favourite bad kids 💕

[vagueconfusion]

Feeling real ridiculous for not having realized that Baron's "stark father" was the Nightmare King until now

[ewwww-what]

These freaks are not studying (good for them)

Closeups below :)

[rrat-king]

when i tell you i sobbed. literally bursting into tears i just... thinking about these two queer teens resurrecting ancient, corrupted gods who loved each other until they couldn't anymore, until she was too changed but proof of their love still exists, hidden away and covered over, but the proof is still there.

[greatvaluegirlfriend]

fantasy high: junior year, aka brennan lee mulligan does his best to make zac rage in real life

[pippinscribs]

I have free time again finally and I’m gonna fill it with these goofs

[wolfziedraws]

Good Gorgug Hunting

[ech0thegeck0]

God. this show makes me so emotional when i watch it like… how do these adults performing as kids in a dnd campaign say so many lines that just wrench my heart out?? “that is the love of my life” Kristen saving Riz instead of herself, “i trust fig will find me” riz’s conversations with his dad, “are you okay with us showing this picture of your dad all the time” “yeah! i love seeing my dad, hes been gone a long time” GOD, adaines conversations with her sister, any mention of the neglect adaine went through, “kristen sacrificed herself for me..”, Fabian finding his true self after being in a severe depression, but they also say so many just insanely funny lines too “did yall…fuuuuck?”, “FIG GOT HER KISSES IN?”, “Get the tinkerers to make the tinctures in the tinkerer tent?” “tremendous!”, “Im gonna punch my dad in the face”, “IM A LITTLE SHRIMP”, “GORGUGS DOING A CRAB STAND” honestly the entire shrimp party bit GOD i love them

[4dogs-in-a-trench-coat]

G13 is actually so interesting.

He’s a hacker. He’s a piece of shit. He’s working for the feds and he’s part of a hacker criminal organization. His only friends would turn on him in an instant. Maybe they’re not even friends, just colleagues. he’s soooooo oily.

He knows that the life he lives is fake. All the choices he made, all the people he betrayed, everything he’s done has meant nothing. The tape will be rewound. He’ll make all those choices again and again. And he’s given a chance to be real. So he does what he does best and hacks and this time it means something. He wants to be real. And that’s a problem.