Rooted in Love

For this reason, Paul says, he kneels before the Father and prays one of the most beautiful prayers ever written. He asks God to make us strong in our INNER being — not just strong on the outside, but deep within, where nobody else can see. He prays that our lives would grow deep roots in God's love, like a great tree that no storm can knock over.

Then Paul tries to measure Christ's love: how WIDE is it? How LONG? How HIGH?

How DEEP? He discovers it cannot be measured — it passes knowledge! This love is the love that can reach the deepest part of us — even the hidden sin that we carry, the part of our heart that still pulls toward wrong things even after we are saved.

Paul ends with a firework of praise: God can do IMMEASURABLY MORE than we can ask or imagine — including making our hearts completely clean and filling us with all the fullness of God. Have you asked Him for that?