Knowing what surpasses knowledge
Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised;
His greatness is unsearchable. Psalm 145:3
Read Ephesians 3:14—21
I really need to slow down with a reading like this. I can toss off each phrase rather blandly without stopping, as it were, to clothe it with the full meaning it can carry. It would be a pleasure, some retreat day or evening, to re-write it all and to expand each phrase by writing into it the story it carries, of how God gives himself to me. Just one phrase I can think about for now, ‘to know this love that surpasses knowledge.’ If it surpasses knowledge, how can I know it? It doesn’t add up. Yet I’m sure it’s true. Christ’s love proves itself. It’s none of my own work that he should reveal himself to me, reveal himself as totally committed to me, with a love I can never measure. This therefore surpasses my knowledge. Yet this love has become the most real thing in my whole existence. My life is re-oriented around this one great fact.
Prayer
Lord Jesus Christ, it is all your doing to ground me in your love, and I am grateful every day. Each part of my life now has this new dimension. Life itself now has a depth beyond myself. It has breadth beyond myself. It has height beyond myself. It has length beyond myself. My life does not have you in some compartment of it, unrelated to what I do myself. Rather, there is no part of my life which is free of you. So every part is greater than myself. You are the one I belong to in every part, and every part of my life is therefore, when I see it truly, rather glorious.