Psalms 8:1, 16:2, and 31:1-3
My Shepherd’s voice called, and I responded. He made me to lie down in His green pastures in Ephesians, pondering 3:19:
Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
I preached a message last night using this verse to explain a key component of the mystery of the Gospel (Ephesians 6:19). Paul desired that the saints understand his knowledge “in the mystery of Christ” (Ephesians 3:4). He did not want them to be focused on his troubles, but rather on Christ’s love (Ephesians 3:13). He was so exercised by this concern that he bowed his knees to the “Father of our Lord Jesus Christ” with an earnest petition:
Ephesians 3:16 That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
Ephesians 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
Ephesians 3:19 And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
Along the still waters, I reflected on what I preached last night: that we “might be filled with all the fulness of God” (01.18.2026). Christ came in the flesh (2 John 7), and the flesh He came in was that which He created when He created Adam, and from Adam, woman. That Christ has come in the flesh is remarkable: the Creator God became created man. I showed that before the incarnation, the fulness of the Godhead had never manifested in the flesh of man:
Colossians 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him:
Colossians 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Colossians 2:9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
Colossians 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
Colossians 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
Colossians 2:12 Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.
He would manifest His image and likeness fully to the “man” Who did not think it something to be grasped for, like Satan, who boasted, “I will be like the Most High” (Isaiah 14:12-14). It was given to Christ, Who came in “the flesh.” When Jesus arose, He identified Himself as having “flesh and bones” (Luke 24:39). The glorified body is, after all, the same body but glorified. He said, “It is I myself,” said Jesus. It was the same flesh and bones body in which He died that was raised from the dead and glorified. He is presently and eternally Christ in flesh (2 John 7—note the present tense of the verb is).
Paul’s prayer for us is that we “might be filled with all the fulness of God” (Ephesians 3:19b).
How can we now be filled with “all the fulness of God”? The key is Christ dwelling on our hearts by faith, and rooted and grounded in love, comprehending with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height of that love, knowing the “love of Christ, which passeth knowledge” (Ephesians 3:17-19a).
Our Father wants Christ, Who is God manifest in flesh (1 Timothy 3:16; see John 1:1, 14; 2 John 7), to manifest today in our “mortal flesh” (2 Corinthians 4:11). Jesus is God manifest in flesh; we are flesh through which Jesus is manifested.
In the valley, the Spirit quickened my mind with 2 Corinthians 4:11, “For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.” How do we present this mortal flesh to God that it might indeed manifest Jesus? “We which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake.” My Shepherd, Jesus, spoke: “If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me” (Luke 9:23). Wow! Think about this when you present your body “a living sacrifice” (Romans 12:1-2).
At the table, my Shepherd sat and supped with me in sweet fellowship (Revelation 3:20). Then He anointed my head with His oil and filled my cup with His grace. Goodness and mercy attended our table, and followed as we went together into the harvest.
Praying for revival! 🙏
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