Soli Deo Gloria

Each week I reserve Fridays to prepare for teaching Sunday School at my church. It is truly one of my favorite times of personal study of God’s Word and preparation to share His Word with others. This morning, while preparing to teach from Ephesians 3, I was reading through one of Boice’s excellent commentaries on Ephesians and came across a reference to something a prisoner wrote while imprisoned for their faith in Christ Jesus.

Referring to Ephesians 3:18-19 we read:

“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.”

What a glorious piece of Scripture! Paul’s prayer here to the Gentiles in Ephesus is that being rooted and grounded in love - Christ’s love - that they may be able to comprehend the love of God in the face of Christ Jesus. In verse 19, Paul writes that that love surpasses all knowledge. We truly cannot understand fully that love but we can bank all our hope and trust in the objective truth of that love in the Gospel of our Lord and Savior.

The unknown prisoner who wrote the following understood that there is no way to fully comprehend the love of God in the face of Christ. This poem, penned by a prisoner, his name unknown, gives us a visual picture of that inability to fully comprehend God’s love…

Could we with ink the oceans fill
And were the skies of parchment made,
Where 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.

What a beautiful poem - and one that seems to have been written after reading and meditating on Ephesians 3:17-19. May we also continually meditate on the love of God in the face of Christ Jesus as we reflect and live a Cross-centered life.

Amen.

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