Sunday, October 30, 2005
Friday, October 28, 2005
One of my favorite passages of Scripture is Ephesians 3:14-19. I often make it my prayer for my friends. I often pray it for my family and me. I pray we would understand and grasp more and more deeply the love of Christ for us. Paul prays that we would know this love that passes all knowledge. The love of God for us is beyond our comprehension, absent the Spirits intervention in the process. I pray the Spirit would convince us more and more of God’s love for us.
How would we live life differently if we were convinced of that love? How would our ministries look different? I am convinced that we would be transformed. With unconditional love comes freedom. Galatians 5:1 tells us it is for freedom that Christ set us free. Free to love Him without reservation. Free to pour our love into others without caution. Free to love the ones that hate us with reckless abandon. I can’t do any of those things. But as I allow the love of God for me to sink deeper into the depths of my soul, the easier it becomes.
As we begin to grasp how wide, high, deep and long the love of Christ is for us, the less we are bound by the opinions others have of us. As followers of Christ are we still allowing the world to judge us? Does it tell us we are not talented enough, pretty enough, rich enough, cool enough or enough of anything? It has no right to! The God of all creation says we are His princes and princesses! His unknowable love is made knowable so we can rest in it, wallow in it, baste in it, live in the reality of it 24/7. If we live in that reality, we will have the ability to do that which few have done.
Read Paul’s words below. I pray you would be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God this day.
For this reason I kneel before the Father from whom His whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray 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. 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, and to know this love that surpasses all knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Blessings,
Chris Buda
How would we live life differently if we were convinced of that love? How would our ministries look different? I am convinced that we would be transformed. With unconditional love comes freedom. Galatians 5:1 tells us it is for freedom that Christ set us free. Free to love Him without reservation. Free to pour our love into others without caution. Free to love the ones that hate us with reckless abandon. I can’t do any of those things. But as I allow the love of God for me to sink deeper into the depths of my soul, the easier it becomes.
As we begin to grasp how wide, high, deep and long the love of Christ is for us, the less we are bound by the opinions others have of us. As followers of Christ are we still allowing the world to judge us? Does it tell us we are not talented enough, pretty enough, rich enough, cool enough or enough of anything? It has no right to! The God of all creation says we are His princes and princesses! His unknowable love is made knowable so we can rest in it, wallow in it, baste in it, live in the reality of it 24/7. If we live in that reality, we will have the ability to do that which few have done.
Read Paul’s words below. I pray you would be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God this day.
For this reason I kneel before the Father from whom His whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray 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. 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, and to know this love that surpasses all knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Blessings,
Chris Buda
Lake Champion July 2005
The Buda family and friends at Lake Champion, our Young Life camp north of New York City. For more info on YOung Life check out www.younglife.org.
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