Ephesians 3:8 -21

I had a hard time getting into reading this morning. It didn't help that there were 2 little boys upstairs getting up. But I reread and focused a little more. The verse that jumped out to me today and I shared with the boys as they are here now "helping" me is 3:18 "And may you have the power to understand, as all God's people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love really is."

Do I? Do you? Understand the wideness, length, highness and deepness of His love for us. I think the next verse explains that we don't. "May you experience the love of Christ, though it is os great you will never fully understand." I think that we have love that is earthly love and some that is very unconditional. I think that our love for our children and spouses is unconditional or at least it grows into that for our spouses :) That is something that comes over time, of going through the thick and the thin. I pray that I could understand the amount that God loves me, even a fraction of it.

I think that is half my problem sometimes is that I don't feel loved the way that I want to be loved. Yet, I am loved the way that I need to be loved by my heavenly Father. Isn't that enough? Or is it that I need the earthly love that I crave so longingly for.

Dear Lord,

I pray that I could take your love for me and grow to learn how much it truly is. That your love for me would satisfy my longing. That I can take that love and share it with my children and my husband. And all around me.

Please Lord with me with this gap that I have in my life.

Amen.