Let His Love Fill Our Hearts
By: David McFadden
“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.” — Ephesians 3:19
The love of Christ in its sweetness, its fulness, its greatness, its faithfulness, is beyond all human comprehension. Where shall language be found which shall describe His matchless, His unparalleled love towards the children of men? It is so vast and boundless that, as the swallow but skims the water, and dives not into its depths, so all descriptive words but touch the surface, while depths immeasurable lie beneath.
The love of Christ is indeed measureless and fathomless; none can attain unto it. Before we can have any right idea of the love of Jesus, we must understand His previous glory in its height of majesty, and His incarnation upon the earth in all its depths of shame. But who can tell us the majesty of Christ in its completeness?
When Jesus was enthroned in the highest heavens, He is above all power and God of all thrones—Lord of lords and King of kings. By Him were the heavens made, and all the hosts thereof. His own almighty arm upheld the spheres. All the while, the praises of cherubim and seraphim perpetually surrounded Him. The full chorus of the hallelujahs of the universe unceasingly flowed to the foot of His throne—He reigned supreme above all His creatures great and small. Jesus is God over all, blessed forever.
Who can tell His height of glory then? And who, on the other hand, can tell how low He descended? For God supreme to become a man was something, to be a man of sorrows was far more. For the universe’s Sovereign to bleed, and die, and suffer, these were much for Him who was the Son of God. But to suffer such unparalleled agony—to endure a death of shame and desertion by His Father, this is a depth of condescending love which the most inspired mind must utterly fail to fathom.
Herein is love! and truly it is love that is far beyond our ability to understand. O let this love fill our hearts with adoring gratitude, and lead us to practical manifestations of its power.
—Charles H. Spurgeon, adapted from Spurgeon's Morning & Evening, Inc. All rights reserved.
Taking God’s Word Back to Him
Heavenly Father, thank You for Your matchless love that ushered me into Your kingdom. The depth of Your love is far beyond me to understand, even so, You carry me every day in it—I know its fulness because I live in it. LORD, help me receive You in childlike faith as You told me I must do. It is there that Your kingdom becomes conceivable to my finite, earthly mind. Help me join the heavenly choruses of praise, celebrating Your majesty, but help me also see the suffering and unparalleled agony that You bore for me—Your fathomless love on full display. Little-by-little, day-by-day, You reveal the secrets of Your love. Thank You for trusting me with such sacred powers of heaven—O let this love fill my heart with adoring gratitude, and lead me to practical manifestations of its power. I Yield my heart, proclaim Your glory and ask these petitions in Jesus’ precious name. Amen.
Excerpted and adapted from David McFadden’s “Deeper Life Series”.
For more articles from this series go to: https://www.deeperlifeseries.com/devotional-archive
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