Thursday, September 25, 2008

Preparation for Sunday

Brothers and Sisters,

This week in our daily meditations and Sunday/Monday services we are posturing our hearts towards "Your Love".
The doctrine of the trinity teaches that at the core God is a self-sufficient community of loving persons (Father, Son and Spirit). Within this divine community, we discover a vast, unmeasured, boundless love that cannot fully realized or appreciated by mortal man. God IS love. And, sometimes we simply need to re-imagine what this actually implies about this Triune God that we worship and serve.
So, as we enter into the second week of Ablaze, my desire for you is that you would take time in prayer and meditation to re-imagine the love sourced within the trinity.

"For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 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 Lord's people, 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 3:16-19
An old hymn whose lyrics engage the mind and heart to imagine this love. http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/o/t/othedeep.htm

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