“…You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf, and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.”
A few Sundays ago I shared that the love of God must start on the inside before we can start lovng on the outside. But grasping God’s great love for us – the breadth and length and height and depth of God’s love (Eph.3:8) – is not something we can manufacture in our own determination and strength. Paul says in Romans 5:5:
“…For we know how dearly God loves us because He has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with His love.” (NLT)
It is the Holy Spirit that fills our hearts with God’s love. It is the Spirit’s power that enable us to grasp that great love of God (Eph. 3:16-19). Is it possible to truly love without the Spirit? I’m not sure, but Paul could have mentioned the Colossians love. Period. No love of the Spirit, just love. But the Colossians must have revealed an incomprehensible love that could have only come from the Spirit’s love poured out in their hearts.
Is your love incomprehensible? Is your love coming from the Spirit’s pouring out of God’s love into your heart? I encourage you today to pray that God would help you really grasp His love for you, and allow that love to flow into your life. It’s something I’ve been thinking about all week, and as I consider God’s love for me, it’s hard not to go through the day, not with the weight of “I should do this or that”, but rather with a certain freedom to do the right things. It’s hard to explain, really. I hope that will be your experience as well. May God lead you to love others today with a certain incomprehensible love.