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“And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God” (Ephesians 3:19).
To be “filled with all the fulness of God” is an expression beyond our understanding. Can we really be filled with all the fulness of God, who lives and moves in eternity? In one way, no, but in another way we can.
Let us try to illustrate it this way. The oceans of this world hold a tremendous amount of water. If somehow we could empty all the oceans in this world of their water, yet keep all the rivers of the world flowing into those oceans, it has been calculated that it would take about 40,000 years to fill them up again! If we think of big rivers like the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence, the Amazon, the Nile, the Ganges, the Yangtze, etc., that is a lot of water! If we took a pail down to the Atlantic Ocean and dipped it in, we could fill it easily. In that sense it is filled with all the fulness of the ocean, for it cannot hold any more. Yet it holds only a very tiny part of that ocean. In that sense, it cannot ever be filled with the ocean’s fulness.
The love of Christ is like that. We can enjoy it, but it is so big that we cannot take it all in. But we can be completely filled with it, and this is what the Lord wants for us.
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