empowered love

 Do you ever just know God put something

in your path?  It might be a song, a book, a 

verse, a beautiful picture...but in that moment, 

something just clicks.  It's like that thing you've 

been rolling around in your head just crystallizes, 

and it's like God reached out and squeezed your 

hand, reassuring you that He's right there.

  I had one of those moments this morning 

when I picked up a book that the hubs & I 

have been slowly working through:  

"The Holy Spirit is the one who fills believers 

with God's love and the one who enables us 

to love one another.  Paul describes this

beautifully in his prayer to the Ephesians:

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

knowledge - that you may be filled to the 

measure of all the fullness of God.  (3:16-19)

May we know this love that surpasses 

knowledge - the mystery of this great love - 

by the strengthening power of the Spirit."

*excerpt from Forgotten God,

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