Saturday, June 6, 2009

Four Dimensional Love

"And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ..." Ephesians 3:17&18John Bunyan expounded on this verse and its context in his classic All Loves Excelling. He states that "there is nothing that is more helpful, succouring, or comfortable to a Christian while in a state of trial and temptation, than to know that there is a breadth to answer a breadth, a length to answer a length, a depth to answer a depth, and a height to answer a height."

The love of Christ for His own is more than a match for any circumstance. Abandon fear! Trust instead!

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Thank you for this reinforcing word, bro.

I need to be reminded to constantly rest in Christ's love as my temperament often lends itself to faithlessness and anxiety.

The Blainemonster said...

Amen; it's a powerful passage, and was a central part of our worship this morning. :)