"that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." (Colossians 2:2-3)
"that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us..." (Ephesians 3:16-20)
"No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you." (John 15:15)
When I read verses like these, my heart aches to know God more deeply. God wants to reveal so much to His Bride. Friends share secrets about each other. But, we are hard of hearing and would rather play religion. We are satisfied with half truths and word play, "philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ." (Colossians 2:8) But I am not satisfied. I repent of these things. I desire to press forward, in maturity, "forgetting what lies behind; I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let us hold true to what we have attained." (Philippians 3:13-14,16)
"that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us..." (Ephesians 3:16-20)
"No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you." (John 15:15)
When I read verses like these, my heart aches to know God more deeply. God wants to reveal so much to His Bride. Friends share secrets about each other. But, we are hard of hearing and would rather play religion. We are satisfied with half truths and word play, "philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ." (Colossians 2:8) But I am not satisfied. I repent of these things. I desire to press forward, in maturity, "forgetting what lies behind; I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let us hold true to what we have attained." (Philippians 3:13-14,16)
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