Divine Love: The Essence of Christianity

I came across a small fragment of Scripture from Ephesians today that captures the essence of Christianity. I wanted to share this fantastic light with you:

"so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have 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 be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God." (Ephesians 3:17-19)

Here, in these two sentences, we have the essence of Christianity. We have:

- Christ dwelling in our hearts through faith

- Hearts rooted and established in love

- The Holy Spirit Who gives us the faculty to comprehend and know Christ's love, which surpasses knowledge

- That by knowing the never-failing love of Christ, we experience the fullness of God

These four things capture the essence of Christianity: faith, hearts filled with love, seeing and knowing Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit, and experiencing the fullness of God.

If you are feeling overburdened and overwhelmed with all of the religious things associated with modern day Christianity (Churchianity, as it were), you may want to meditate deeply on Ephesians 3:17-19. There is much glorious light to be found there.

May Christ dwell in your heart through faith, and may you know the Divine love of Christ and experience the fullness of God.

Agape,

Steve