Originally posted on Facebook on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.
A precious treasure was revealed to me in my Bible Study this morning.
In Paul's prayer for the Ephesians in Ephesians 3:18–19, he says, "[I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ … that you] may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God."
Before, what I heard was, "that I may understand the width, length, and height of the love of Christ." I understood that to be a call upward—beyond simply religious engagement with two-dimensional words on a page and to experience Christ as He is: real, a person who came in the flesh in three dimensions (width, length, and height), who I can know. Beautiful, right? But I didn't know the half—still don't.
Two things came to me today.
One revelation was that Paul didn't give three dimensions—he gave four: width and length and depth and height. We exist and experience reality in three dimensions, but here he points out that there's a depth beyond merely existing. Yet, the sense I have is that the Apostle Paul was not just being poetic; he was using language for an extradimensional reality that would be explored by math and physics thousands of years later—think Einstein’s theory of relativity, which posits a single continuum of space and time.
The other, and most remarkable, was that Paul didn’t say "that I may know the width and length and depth and height," but "that we may know"—that we, together with all the saints, may be able to comprehend and know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that we may be filled with all the fullness of God.
"With all the saints" is the linchpin of that passage—a central theme that anchors not only this passage but much of Paul’s message in Ephesians. With Christ at the core, that togetherness allows us to step into a dimension we cannot even conceive.
This leaves me in awe. I get chills pondering it. It is so inconceivably awesome that Paul concludes this prayer in Ephesians 3:20 with, "Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Jesus Christ to all generations, forever and ever. Amen."
And I, though thousands of years removed from when this prayer was penned, but by the power of Christ, as part of one continuum, can say—just as though I were there at that very moment—“AMEN!”
I want this more than anything.
And, I see more clearly that I need you to get it.
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