Fullness

In Ephesians 3:19b Paul prayed that we would be filled with all the fullness of God. In Ephesians 4:13, he spoke of us coming to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ and in 5:18 of the same book, he spoke of being filled with the Spirit.

Wow! That's full! I think most of us have experienced a feeling of fullness from overeating. When you are that full, you can't imagine putting one more bite in your mouth, because there just isn't any room. In the same way, when you are full of the power, majesty, wisdom, love, mercy, patience, kindness, and everything else that overflows from the Trinity, you have no room for the self-life.

To bring me to separation, to death of the self-life, to make room for full fellowship with the Trinity, Andrew Murray, in his book Absolute Surrender, says:

"Come and cast this self-life and flesh-life at the feet of Jesus. Then trust Him. Do not worry yourselves with trying to understand all about it, but come in the living faith that Christ will come into you with the power of His death and the power of His life. Then the Holy Spirit will bring the whole Christ-Christ crucified and risen and living in glory-into your heart."

There is deliverance!