Ephesians 3:16-19 NLT; I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit.  Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong.  And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is.  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.

Isn’t it wonderful to have unlimited resources at our disposal? To tap into a love so powerful that makes everything you go through, only deepen and strengthen that love? Makes sense that if God is love and we are his children, that our very foundation, our DNA is love. If we truly want to draw closer to God, we must also draw closer to love. When we trusted in Jesus as Lord and Savior of our lives, we invited love to be our primary response to everything and everyone around us. 

I’ve watched marriages change before my eyes when men and women experienced the deep love of God. It’s dissolved years of hate, bitterness and strife, irreconcilable differences, division all because of this God like love. It springs up from deep within, like a geyser of cool, clear healing water, leaving nothing behind but joy, peace and freedom. Gone is self loathing. Gone is self centeredness. Gone is manipulation and control. Paul said it best above, “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.”

Our pursuit of power is a waste of time and effort when it’s all found in trusting the gift of the Father, LOVE. What a priceless gift. John 15:13 says; “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” That’s just what Jesus did, he lay his life down so that in planting that great love, a huge harvest of deep lovers would be grown in the earth. You, me, we were made to love and love deeply. Our love should not need words.  Our love should be evidence of who we are and WHOSE we are. Our love should reach out to everyone our lives touch so that we leave traces of love on each heart, each life. When they ask why we’re doing these things, our response should simply be, it’s what our Father told us to do, love others and you are loved.