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The Fullness of God

stephen

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....that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God - Eph 3 v 19

Can a sane human being really expect such a prayer as this, ever to be answered? How can the finite contain the infinite? How can the human body ever contain God? It is over whelming, but it is possible.

Of course we are well aware of the fact that there are aspects of the character of God which are essential to His deity and which could not possibly have anything to do with us. For instance, His omnipotence, His omnipresence, His omniscience: these are aspects of the character of God which cannot have anything to do with the human being: but they are not the greatest things about God - if I may say so reverently.

When I ask myself what it means to be filled with the fullness of God, and search the bible to find a definition if Gods fullness, I find it in these phrases: "God is love": "God is light": and "in Him is no darkness at all" - and if I am to be filled with the fullness of God, it means that into the darkness and impurity of my life there is going to break the holiness of a living Christ in the person of the Holy Ghost.

It means that into the lovelessness and coldness of my heart, which so often has lost its zeal for God and its love for souls, will burst like a living flame the love of Jesus. To be filled up with God, is to be filled up with His love, and His life.
 
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