The fullness of God– Saturday 28th November 2015 – Month of prayer and giving guide

‘And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 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, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.’ (Ephesians 3:17-19)

‘…that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.’

It is God’s will that we be mature, joyful and satisfied in our Christian lives. Too often we feel that God is withholding something from us and is reluctant to give it too us, that He is tight-fisted toward us. The devil may whisper such lies, as he did in the Garden, but God, our Father, wants 'fulness' for us!

This is the summit, of Paul’s prayer and our highest attainment in this world. How do we reach this zenith of being ‘filled to the measure of all the fullness of God’?

This is not about us becoming totally like God, that was the sin of Genesis 3!

There are many things that we could say about this passage and space does not allow me to say more than that it is about us becoming the kind of people that God wants us to be – as like Jesus, as it is possible to become.

We see something of the ‘fullness of God’ for us in passages like Galatians 5:22-23,

‘But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.’

The ‘fullness of God’ is about Him, by the Holy Spirit, imparting (putting in) to us His likeness for our joy and His glory. 

If we want to change and grow, as I’m sure we all do, the place to start is prayer- dependence not discipline! Come to the Father, ask for the empowering of the Holy Spirit, let your heart be drawn to Christ and gospel of grace; see again how you have been ‘rooted and established in love’, allow the Spirit to teach you how ‘high, wide, deep and long is the love of Christ’, and let this Jesus-defined love propel you into growth, into the ‘fullness of God’.

You may want to pray something like this,

“Father, fill me with the great power of your Holy Spirit that I may be able to comprehend the great love of Christ; I pray also that your great power would transform me into the ‘fullness’ that you want for me; that you would be pleased, that I may enjoy you, and that those around me will be drawn to you. Amen”