A Prayer To Know God’s Love

Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong. And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is. May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.

Ephesians 3:17-19

To love and to be loved are among the most fulfilling of human experiences. But precisely because so many people want love, many counterfeits are offered. The word love has become increasingly cheap, sentimental, and commercialized. But the apostle Paul proved by the way he lived his life that he truly and unselfishly loved his converts. He desired that they would understand and experience the love of God—the real thing. He understood that the lives of his converts had to be rooted in something that would last—God’s eternal love.

As we intercede in prayer for those we love most, we can ask nothing better than that they would establish their lives on God’s everlasting love.

• Lord God, I pray that the ones I love might experience the love of Christ . . .