Just as ideas may come from the mind but the passion in the heart for those ideas continues and propels them onward.
The knowledge and wisdom God will just stay in the mind and never mature in the fullness of Christ unless they take root and grow in the heart knowing "in" God. We can know "of" God but "knowing" God and having a passion for God doesn't happen if we don't allow God to work and live in our heart. God must have full excess to our heart. We must know God's love with the "knowing in our heart" and in this maturing faith in the knowing "in" God that we live in, reply on, take refuge in, trust in will even surpass the knowing in our heart. God's love is deeper then the knowing in our heart. We cannot fully understanding how much God loves us but we get a glimpse we when think about Jesus' passion for us and sacrifice on the cross.
God wants us to live NOT in just in head knowledge but in reality of His love that He has placed in our heart when we became a new creation in Christ Jesus. Learning to submit (be still, quiet, before the Lord) and live in God's love is something we all as Christians must continue to do- to "mature" in God's love. This maturity grows in addition to the wisdom God gives us and gives more deeply but if one decides they know it all and have heard it all already they have cut the working power of God off.
Imagine your heart as a glass. How much "God" juice/ Holy Spirit fortified juice did you allow Him to pour into you today? Was it 1%? 10%? 50%? 80% 90%? 100%?
In the hidden but real certainty of God we will not be tossed around by opinions, cleaver arguments, situations, circumstances, etc.
Again this can only happen if Jesus is at home in our heart for weakness is behind the locked doors of the soul where God is not allowed to enter.
Ephesians 3:16-19 (NIV)
"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have the power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
1. "inner being" (your soul) is where the power of God lives."I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have the power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
2. "dwell" (live in your heart/ not the physical heart but the "knowing heart" of the soul )
3. "rooted and established in love" (planted, surrendered, anchored in God's love which has no fear.)
4. "to grasp" (to fully understand)
5. "surpasses knowledge" (head knowledge -and even heart knowledge)
Paul writes in Ephesians 3:19 "May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it. Then you will be filled with fullness of life and power that comes from God." NLT.
We may live in this supernatural love even though we may not even fully understand it. Sort of like when a person is "born-again". It is a supernatural transformation that changes the heart. A person can not necessarily see the inward changes of this transformation from the outward appearance - except through a person's actions/ fruit.
True intimate fellowship with His goodness brings out His goodness in us.
2 Peter 1:3-
"As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness! And by the same mighty power, he has given us all of his rich and wonderful promises. He has promised that you will escape the decadence all around you caused by evil desires and that you will share in his divine nature."
"As we know Jesus better, his divine power gives us everything we need for living a godly life. He has called us to receive his own glory and goodness! And by the same mighty power, he has given us all of his rich and wonderful promises. He has promised that you will escape the decadence all around you caused by evil desires and that you will share in his divine nature."
Do we truly understand how much God loves us? Do we truly understand how God's love secures and stabilizes us? Do we truly understand how patient and kind God is? Do we truly know God never gives up, never loses faith in us, is always hopeful and endures so much from us and for us?
He has planted Jesus in our hearts and is waiting for us to let him have full excess to our heart not just our mind. For God's words in which we are taught and feed and speak will not just be God's words but the words will have passionate godly actions to escort them. Mighty is the love of God and his love for us. Give God your heart and you will not regret it but those who hold back will regret much.
For to live in God's love is to be sustained in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
He has planted Jesus in our hearts and is waiting for us to let him have full excess to our heart not just our mind. For God's words in which we are taught and feed and speak will not just be God's words but the words will have passionate godly actions to escort them. Mighty is the love of God and his love for us. Give God your heart and you will not regret it but those who hold back will regret much.
For to live in God's love is to be sustained in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
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