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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Filled With the Fullness, #3
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 3:18,19—NIV)
We live in a three-dimensional world. But we have four dimensions here—width, length, height, and depth.
In Ezekiel we read of the progress of the believer as he moves forward in the Spirit of God, in eternal life.
When he first is saved he is in water to the ankles. He has a portion of God's Spirit. This is death to the world.
When he asks for and receives more of the Spirit of God he is in water to the knees. He has more of the Spirit of God. This we term the "Pentecostal" experience. The Pentecostal experience should lead us to put to death the deeds of our sinful nature.
Now, using the spiritual power he has received, he is to press forward in water to the hips or waist. This is death to self-will, the crossing of the Jordan over onto resurrection ground. It is not until we die to self-will that we become candidates for the fruitfulness and dominion God desires for man.
But there is a fourth dimension. The fourth dimension is waters to swim in—a river that cannot be crossed.
The first three levels and their accompanying judgments (measurings) are acts of redemption, of salvation.
The fourth level is not an act of redemption. We already have been redeemed, by the first three levels, from the hand of the enemy.
The fourth level is that of the tree of life. God is making us trees of life from which other people can derive eternal life and healing.
This is the level of perfect love. We no longer are grappling with the processes of salvation but are resting in the fullness of the Presence of God. Now our life is a conduit from God to people. Our whole concern, our whole life, joy, peace, love, are bound up in God's will and the personalities of the people whom God has given us for an inheritance. We live for God and other people, you might say.
Such rest in the Presence of God, such perfect service to the nations whom God has saved, is the destiny of the royal priesthood. It is to fulfill this role of as a tree of life that God has called us from the ranks of mankind.
And then Paul says, as part of his prayer for the saints in Ephesus, "that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."
Now, this is quite a promise.
What does it mean to be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God? It means exactly what it says.
We have seen the Lord Jesus Christ in whom the fullness of God lives.
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, (Colossians 2:9—NIV)
We understand that Jesus Christ is the eternal Lord and Christ and has existed from the beginning with God.
We understand also that God is bringing many sons to glory, not sons in competition with the Firstborn, but sons nevertheless.
God's sons are destined to be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
To be continued.