"...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..."
Ephesians 3:17-19

This is part of the Apostle Paul's prayer for the saints in Ephesus (and us)
for a deeper understanding of the life all Believers have in Christ Jesus.
We have this life because of the great love of God. 'For God so loved He
gave' and loving the Father Jesus was 'obedient to the point of death'. In
our Scripture Paul is praying that the Believer be able to grasp 'how wide,
long, high and deep' is this love of Christ. Let's see what Scripture tells
us of the Believer as he seeks this deeper understanding with the desire to
become mature in Christ.

Of the one desiring a deeper life we see:
"But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night." Psalm 1:2

"He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation upon
the rock; and when a flood rose, the torrent burst against that house and
could not shake it, because it has been well built." Luke 6:48

1 Corinthians 2:9 says,
"However, as it is written:
'No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has
prepared for those who love him."
Then Paul gives us this 'but':
"But God has revealed it to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all
things, even the deep things of God." Vs. 10

In Philippians 4:6-7 Paul tells us that we can pray making all our requests
known to God and God' s peace will guard our hearts and minds. Then he goes
on to tell us what (or should I say Who?) to dwell on, for I believe verse 8
is a description of the beautiful attributes of Jesus Christ,
"Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is
right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if
there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, let your mind
dwell on these things."

Of this love of Christ's, we see:
That it is Unchangeable:
"Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come
that He should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own
who were in the world, He loved them to the end." John 13:1
(Read verses 1-20, here Jesus is giving the beautiful example of how we are
to love one another -- unselfishly, putting others before ourselves.)

Christ's love is divine:
"Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love."
John 15:9

It is Self sacrificing:
"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his
friends." John 15:13

It is Inseparable:
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulations, or
distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?"
Romans 8:35
The answer is in verses 36-39 that tells us that nothing "...shall be able
to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

It is Sacrificial as Paul tells us in Galatians 2:20:
"I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but
Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me."

It is Manifested by His death:
"We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us..." 1 John 3:16

As we meditate on these familiar verses may the Holy Spirit bring us into a
deeper knowledge of what it is that God is revealing to each one of us. For
we know that "as He is so also are we in this world" therefore, it behooves
us to KNOW this love so that it can be expressed through each of His saints.

Blessing to all in His great love. Amen