And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might
be filled with all the fulness of God (Ephesians 3:19).
From our opening verse, we understand that it’s the
will of God that we’re filled with all the fullness of God. Could this be real?
Is this truly possible? Emphatically yes! He tells us to be filled with the
Spirit (Ephesians 5:18), and if you’re filled with the Spirit, you’re filled
with God, for the Spirit is Himself God!
Imagine every member of the body of Christ being
filled with God; not filled with doubt, unbelief or fear, but with God! What an
extraordinary life of glory we would all be living! Then you’d understand
Christianity as a life of "...joy unspeakable and full of glory" (1
Peter 1:8). Think about God’s people all around the world, going into Church
for service, full of the Spirit: joyful, radiant, and exuberant with praise!
That’s God’s plan; that’s His will for us—to be replete with His
fullness—nothing is left out.
We have something in our day that the prophets and
priests of the Old Testament didn’t have: we have the capacity to contain the
fullness of God’s Spirit, and be filled with His "maximum load." The
Greek word is "pleroma," and it means the total or complete content of
a vessel in its maximum capacity and entirety. That means everything the
Father is, and has, is in you, BECAUSE
HE LIVES IN YOU.
Colossians 1:19 says it pleased the Father that in
Jesus should all fullness ("pleroma") dwell. When you saw Jesus, you
saw the totality of Deity. No wonder He could say, "...He that hath seen
me, hath seen the Father" (John 14:9). Now, the beauty of it all is that
you’re in Him, and He’s in you. Colossians 2:10 says, "And ye are complete
in him, which is the head of all principality and power." That means
there’s nothing of God that’s supposed to be in you that’s not already in you.
Your humanity has been supplanted by the life and nature of God. Blessed be
God!
Prayer
Dear heavenly Father, I thank you for
the gift of the Holy Spirit. I live every day conscious that I’m filled with
the totality of Deity. Lord, I thank you for my life is continually
characterized by victory, success, abundance, and the supernatural, because divinity is at work in
me, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further Study: 1 Corinthians
12:13; John 14:17
1 Year Bible Reading Plan : Revelation 13:1-10 Nahum 1-3
2 Year Bible Reading Plan : Revelation 17:1-10 haggai 1
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