Filled to Overflowing

DEVOTION
EPHESIANS
FILLED TO OVERFLOWING
Eph 3:19
19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
NIV
So this is the rest of the story. This is the conclusion of a thought which I have taken apart and spent some on each idea within. I can do this because this is my devotion. I am increasing aware of just how much God wants to be a part of my life. I was an amazing moment when I was saved, no doubt. It was also overwhelming to take in all that he was doing in my life and in fact still is. But here I see something which encompasses a completeness of God in me. He desires to fill me completely with himself to the fullest. To be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. That is what he says. That leaves no room for me. No room for self. Does God desire to take over me? Does he intent to move in totally and remove all of me in the process? Or is there room in here for me and the fullness of God? How does this work? After all I am enjoying the taste of my coffee right now. That is me, so how does the fullness of God figure into that? I suppose it is in the sense I am also totally contemplative regarding his working in me. I am saturated with his love for me. I am absolutely cognizant of him every moment of my day, no matter what I am doing. I cannot have a moment of time, of selfish thoughts or behaviors without knowing exactly that is I am doing because of the measure of all his fullness within me. But is he done filling? Can he even fill me more? How much fuller can the fullness be? I think he can continue to keep filling to overflowing, and thus his love of his, this fullness of his spills out of me so much it has an effect on those around me. How could I possibly contain the fullness of God within my own being? I have to allow him to overflow from within me.