Read Ephesians 3:14-19
I decided to get married when I was 32 years old. I had a stable career, nice car, owned my home and was just feeling good about what God was doing in my life. So what else was there to do, but to get married and have a family. At least that’s what I was told.
After a few years of stress, continual arguments, a drug-using husband and unfaithfulness in my marriage, my world was destroyed. What I thought was going to make my life better, destroyed me to my core. The hurt and confusion touched a part of me that I didn’t know existed until then. I was left feeling mentally, physically and spiritually defeated.
Nothing anyone said helped. I felt betrayed by those whose marriages looked so easy. I felt betrayed by those who said, “Pray about it, it will get better in time.” I had been lied to, and it seemed as if I had no support. Why would God let me marry this person, only for this person to cause me grief and steal my peace?
One night, after I was divorced, I was awakened in the middle of the night by a voice from the TV. I heard the following verses:
“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every 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 Lord’s holy people, 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.” (Ephesians 3:14-19)
I sat up, grabbed my Bible and read the passage again, then again. I had never felt the depth of these verses before. To know that God’s Spirit moves within our inner being to dwell in the inner recesses of our pain, hurt ,or grief. Deep in the core of the hurt, I felt the Spirit’s present fill me with the breadth, length, height, and depth of Christ’s love. I experienced a greater acknowledgement of His love. How glorious to know that through faith in God we are rooted and grounded in a love that is not shakable, unable to be measured or conditional limited. God’s love is satisfying and unlimited. It is a love that we can’t comprehend but is available to us in fullness.
For REflection:
- Meditate on the fullness of God’s love towards you. Confess your sins and doubts to Him and then release them, trusting that His love fully overcomes those sins and doubts.
by Donna James
