by Pastor Paul M. Sadler
Scripture Reading:
“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” — Ephesians 3:19
The passage before us is a treasure chest of truth. Paul contrasts the
spiritual knowledge of the believer (“to know”), with human
knowledge (“passeth knowledge”). We are living in a time when a
high premium has been placed on intellectualism. Technology is advancing so
rapidly that a product is barely to the marketplace before it is obsolete.
Human knowledge has progressed to the point where man has now created small
micro chips, the size of a pencil eraser, that can store volumes of
information. While man glories in his accomplishments in the area of high
tech, God is still the infinite One in knowledge overall. I read recently
that if man were to build a computer capable of performing the functions of
the human brain (memory, reasoning, thinking, functional control, etc.) it
would have to be the size of the Empire State Building. How would you like
to carry that around on your shoulders? While human knowledge has benefited
us all in areas of medicine, science, and travel, man through human wisdom
can never know God nor understand the things of God (I Cor. 1:20,21).
Those who are saved, however, have at their disposal a spiritual
knowledge that far surpasses human knowledge. Having the eyes of our
spiritual understanding opened, we are now able to comprehend the Word of
God. It is from God’s Word that we first learned of the love of
Christ. It was Christ’s love for us that sent Him to Calvary to die
for our sins, to redeem us back to God (Rom. 5:8). His love also keeps us
secure, for as the Apostle says, “Who shall separate us from the love
of Christ?” (Rom. 8:35). The love of Christ constrains us or
motivates us to serve Him. We can never repay what he has done for us, but
out of gratitude for what He has accomplished for us we should desire to
live for Him (II Cor. 5:14,15). With this knowledge of the love of Christ
we can enjoy the fullness of God.
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