How Great Is Our God

October 17, 2010

This week we are studying one of Paul's prayers for the Ephesians. Paul asks God the following for them:

17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

The most famous line from this prayer is the part about comprehending the love of Christ, which Paul states surpasses knowledge - grasping its breadth, length, height and depth. We get a sense that Paul wants them to understand the magnitude and dimensionality of this love.

To this end, we are going to look at two video clips today. The first focuses on the magnitude of God that surpasses our understanding. To know the love of God, we must first accurately respect who this God is doing the loving. Both clips are from Louie Giglio's "How Great Is Our God" tour/video.

Video 1: How Great Is Our God, Part 1


Now that you have undoubtedly been floored just by seeing a very small portion of one galaxy among 100 billion that God created, I hope that you have recognized that this God who loves us in Christ is beyond any pretense of defining. We will never fully grasp God. However, Paul seems to believe that we CAN fully grasp His love.

As you watch the second video, keep in your mind the vastness of the God who has done this intricate thing in the very working of the cell structure of your body.

Video 2: Laminin


I hope that by watching these two videos, you have more of an idea of at least the height and depth of the love of Christ and the you are assured of His upholding power in your life.

There are no additional questions today. Just spend the week trying to reconcile the God in the first video and the God in the second. Allow it to comfort, assure, and inspire you that so great a God is intimately involved with and concerned about you. He loves you. May you be "filled up to all the fullness of God."