Daily Lesson for May 15, 2018

Today’s Daily Lesson comes from Ephesians chapter 3 verses 18 and 19:

 18I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Do you know that God loves you?

I know you know it, but do you really KNOW it?  Do you know it not only cognitively, but do you know it in the very ground of your being?  Do you know it in your bones?  Do you know it enough for it not to matter what somebody else says or thinks or whether or not they like what you are saying or doing or where it is that you are stepping?  In other words, do you know it know it?  Do you know from the crown of your head to the soul of your feet and everywhere in between, especially in that great well of God’s love called the heart?

Paul says there is a way of knowing love which surpasses all knowledge. It’s not just something intellectual or rational or factual. It’s a knowledge that is intimate and personal.  It’s the way of “knowing” something and someone Biblically — if you know what I mean. It’s a way of knowing we are loved in the most secret and beautiful and life-giving kind of way. It’s the way of knowing that embraces, and holds, and caresses, and has the power to conceive a whole new life.

O Love that will not let me go,

I rest my weary soul in thee;

I give thee back the life I owe,

That in thine ocean depths its flow

May richer, fuller be.