Ephesians Lesson 3/Days 6-7

In youth group we used to sing this fast and fun song, “I want more of Jesus, more and more and more...” I think Paul was praying the same for us! There’s no way to measure it, but he still wants us to have the strength to somehow if it’s even possible to comprehend how wide, deep, long, and high the love of God is. The greatness of this love is so overwhelming to him that falls under its weight and prays with power and emotion. Frederick Lehman wrote the following chorus which beautifully expresses this truth

of the unsearchable riches of Christ:

“Could we with ink the ocean fill, And were the skies of parchment made,

Were every stalk on earth a quill, And every man a scribe by trade,

To write the love of God above, Would drain the ocean dry.

Nor could the scroll contain the whole, Though stretched from sky to sky.”

If anyone knew the overwhelming love of God up close and personally, it may well have been Paul. I pray today that we would all not just know the love of God, but we would feel it and have the strength to continue to comprehend it too.